Quotes About Family

Kristin Hannah

rain. In that quiet, Ruby heard the echo of a broken family;

Grandma lighting candles and keeping them lit, whispering

He is my home," her mother said, shaking her head. "How will I live without him?

I always craved love. The unconditional, even unearned kind. I needed someone to say it to me. Not to sound poor me, but my mother never said it.

How can I help you, my friend?" "I'm having a little trouble with my daughter, Suki." The caller's flattened vowels identified her as a midwesterner. "How old is Suki, Marge?" "Sixty-seven this November.

will." "I just want to keep you safe." I smile. Americans can be

for the definition of love she'd handed down to her daughter like a dark incantation.

Kristin Hannah

Hold your head up," she said out loud. She had children to think about. Two small people who needed to be comforted in the wake of their father's betrayal.

pâtisseries, and suddenly I remember Maman handing

She knew how fragile it all was: her family, her parents. One thing every child of a POW knew was how easily people could be broken.

Važno je ono što jesi, ljudi koje nosiš u srcu i s kojima ostaješ zauvijek, a naro?ito u teškim vremenima.

could change how I feel about you? Really, Mom?

I'm sorry you had to find out about Dad, but maybe it'll help. We're human, Ruby. All of us. Just human.

Tonight, later, she would write about her constant fear, how it strangled her all the time and the constant effort it took not to show it to her children.

This is no place for anyone," Vianne

She's my heroine. You know that.' Leni knew it wasn't a good thing, not a normal mom-and-dad thing, to compare your love to a drug that could hollow your body and fry your brain and leave you for dead. But they said it to each other all the time.

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." She clinked her glass against Mom's.

How could a place be as alive as Alaska, as beautiful and cruel? No. It wasn't Alaska's fault. It was hers. Leni was Matthew's second mistake.

saving them money and helping them out. "Dad?" she said. "Could you stay

I need your help with Ant. He won't understand." "I don't understand. This is America. How can this be happening to us?" "Hard times," Elsa said. "That's a darn lie." "Language, Loreda," Mom said tiredly.

Her biggest failure had been an inability to love herself as well as she'd loved her family.

she'd let weakness in, and loss and regret, and those emotions had tainted her view of herself, but her love had run deep and been honest. Her biggest failure had been an inability to love herself as well as she'd loved her family.