Quotes from Kristin Hannah

But, as with Matthew, loss had rearranged her from the inside out.

You said I was supposed to shoot you if you even thought about marriage before thirty. You want to amend that?

It's so easy to do the wrong thing in life, don't you think? When we see a clear road to being a better person, we ought to take it.

They'd come here with nothing and made something out of that nothing and they didn't cotton to being told how to live, not by each other or by a government that hardly seemed to know the Great Plains existed.

The Nightingale has sung

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Anita sighed dramatically. It was

If we weren't here—hiding in a safe house—if the world weren't ripping itself apart, if this was just an ordinary day in an ordinary world, would you want there to be an us, Gaëtan?

should have told Emily everything and held on to her. Instead, I pretended I was okay. I could handle it. I'm a marine. And here I am Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and there she is." He leaned forward. "You have kids, right?" She nodded, sitting back.

Leni thought maybe that he would haunt her. Not just him, but the idea of him, the sad and scary truth that you could love and hate the same person at the same time, that you could feel a deep and abiding loss and shame for your own weakness and still be glad that this awful thing had been done.

She unlocked the door and stepped inside.

A broken heart hurts as badly in wartime as in peace. Say good-bye to your young man well.

airman in the barn. What should be done? The question haunted her all day, reasserting itself constantly. Every choice was dangerous. Obviously she should just keep quiet about the airman in the barn. Silence was always safest. But what if Beck and the Gestapo and the SS and their dogs went into the barn on their own? If Beck found the airman in a barn on the property where he was billeted, the Kommandant would not be

A man's got to fight out here to make a living, they'd say to each other. A man. It was always about the men. They seemed to think it meant nothing to cook and clean and bear children and tend gardens. But we women of the Great Plains worked from sunup to sundown, too, toiled on wheat farms until we were as dry and baked as the land we loved.

like a kid in a time-out, looking terrified. Crystal's

could legally sit here. An ordinary

The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

I could tell you it was a Jean Valjean sort of stay and you would think it was romantic.

saw Mama standing there terrified, nearly in tears, and Leni saw him pull himself from the brink of rage. She'd never seen a man do it before.

You could always tell when Dad was gone. Everything was easier and more relaxed in his absence.

Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it.

Estaban en guerra. El tiempo era un lujo que nadie podía ya permitirse. El mañana se antojaba tan efímero como un beso en la oscuridad.

voice. And maybe

My side of the bed. It's funny, but some things don't change after the death of a spouse, and that's one of them. The left side of the bed is mine even though I am alone in it.