Quotes from Kristin Hannah

even though she felt danger slip silently into the water and swim toward her.

She knew now that no one could be neutral—not anymore—and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.

They were almost the exact same words he'd written to her all those years ago. She hadn't recognized the sad desperation in them when they were letters on a piece of paper. Now she saw the truth: they were both an encouragement and an indictment. What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

Bad things are happening, Madame. Impossible things. I trained to be a soldier, to fight for my country and make my family proud. It was an honorable choice. What will be thought of us upon our return? What will be thought of me?

You're not alone, and you're not the one in charge. Ask or help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God, and each other and ourselves, in times as dark as these.

The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present. I

Loreda's lost memories. Sometimes

Didier. Anyway, there is a man, a printer, risking his life to make tracts that we can distribute. Maybe if we can get the French to

But what if that was exactly what you wanted: everything?

and love took shape in the air around them, a regret and memory-filled version, maybe, sad around the edges, but love.

somewhere close we can hide him." *   *   * "This is not a good idea," Gaëtan said. "Hurry," Isabelle said harshly. They were in the

That's motherhood in war, Herr Captain.

herself Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and a deep, abiding fear. Courage is fear you ignore.

Relief for Migrants to Bankrupt State." Loreda flipped through the pages, saw article after article that claimed the migrants were bankrupting the state by demanding aid. Called them shiftless and lazy and criminal, reported that they lived like dogs "because they don't know any better.

A?k her ?eyin ba?lang?c? ve sonuydu. Hayat?n temeliydi, tavan?yd? ve ikisinin aras?ndaki havayd?.

I am relying on you—a criminal and a communist—to help me make a difference.

Behind them, attached to the harness, was a

Happiness was a choice she knew how to make. She chose not to think about the things that bothered her; that way, they disappeared.

Honestly, she tried never to think about the girl she'd once been, and her life in that tract house in Rancho Flamingo. Sobriety didn't make it easier to look back. The opposite was true, in fact. Now she lived her life in moments, in breaths drawn and released, in drinks not sipped and bowls of pot not smoked. Every dry second was a triumph.

Surely this beautiful creature couldn't be the child who'd once licked the metal ski-chair pole at Mammoth Mountain Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or the girl who'd climbed into her parents' bed after a nightmare when she was only a year away from being a teenager. Seventeen years had passed in the blink of an eye. It was too fast. Not long enough Ã¢â'¬Â¦

recently, college girls in Washington State had begun to disappear without a trace.

She had made a terrible, grievous mistake. She couldn't take it back, however much she might hope for such a chance; she couldn't undo it, but a good woman would accept responsibility—and blame—and apologize. Whatever else she was or wasn't, whatever her failings, she intended to be a good woman.

Be brave. It was the last thing she said to me in this world, and I wish I'd told her that her courage would always guide me.

the moss and grass had begun to overtake this part of the yard, so her chair sat unsteadily on the uneven surface.