Quotes from Kristin Hannah

probably never said I love you to another human being . . . How could Kate have said that? And then not called to apologize . . . or to say hello . . . or even to wish her a happy birthday?

I just do what I'm told.

I don't understand. This is America. How can this be happening to us?

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

Where are you from?" he asked. Leni never knew how to answer that question. It implied a permanence, a before that had never existed for her. She'd never thought of any place as home.

That was the sly, ruinous thing about motherhood, the thing that twisted your insides with guilt and made you change your mind and lower your standards: giving in was so damned easy.

Vianne sabía que Rachel no le estaba preguntando cómo esconderse en el granero, sino cómo podía seguir viviendo después de una pérdida así, cómo podía coger a un hijo y dejar marchar al otro, cómo podía seguir respirando después de haber susurrado «adiós».

Ya hemos pasado por malos tiempos antes y hemos sobrevivido, prosperado incluso. La historia nos demuestra la fortaleza y la perdurabilidad del espíritu humano. Al final, nuestro idealismo, nuestro valor y nuestro compromiso con los demás, con lo que nos une, nos salvarán. En estos tiempos sombríos podemos recurrir a la historia, al legado de aquella generación extraordinaria y a nuestro pasado para sacar fuerzas.

I'm afraid," she said. "Of course you are. You're a mother. Fear is the job description.

For a terrible, exquisite moment, time stopped between them, the world caught its breath.

There's no substitute for talking to the people you love. Thinking about them, dreaming about them, wishing things were different…all of these are the beginning. But someone has to make the first move. I

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up.

on a cough, but of course there was

Elsa smiled. "It couldn't be worse than Rafe and me. Someday soon we will teach each other to dance, Jean. You and me, with music. And we won't care who is watching or what they think," she said. She pulled Jean into a tight hug and found it difficult to let go

Generally, Madame, the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach." Breaths

the trees were still dressed in their party colors

There's no substitute for talking to the people you love. Thinking about them, dreaming about them, wishing things were different…all of these are the beginning. But someone has to make the first move.

Have a good life, Ari de Champlain.

And they were ashamed to need anything from the government. From anyone, really. Like her, they'd always worked for what they needed, not relied on the government for a handout.

Los recuerdos - incluso los más bellos - se desvanecen.

guns, gas masks, arrows, ammunition. We're ready.

German woman yanked Isabelle forward. She stumbled along, her feet screaming in pain

Rachel había estado a su lado mientras enterraban a cada uno de sus hijos. Ahora Vianne tenía que enterrar a la hija de su mejor amiga. La mejor amiga de su hija. ¿Qué clase de Dios misericordioso podía permitir algo así?

You knew instantly that this was a man who always told the truth as he saw it, whether it was popular or not, who had a set of rules to guide his life and no other rules mattered. He