Quotes from Kristin Hannah

Beauty was just another way to discount her, to not see her.

She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?

I would not love him again. Not if I had known how it would feel to live with a broken heart.

Jean reached over for Elsa's hand and held it. Elsa hadn't known until right then how much difference a friend could make. How one person could lift your spirit just enough to keep you upright.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too.

It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.

She saw how love could be dangerous and beyond control. Ravenous.

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I've got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place. I read about places I can barely imagine and lose myself in journeys to foreign lands to save girls who didn't know they were really princesses.

She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.

It's a promise ring," he said solemnly. "The lady at the store said it's what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.

Oh, Mia. You haven't even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can't see how special you are, he isn't good enough for you.

Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

At my age, I should not be afraid of anything—certainly not my own past.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

what shall we drink to?" "How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom