Quotes by Kristin Hannah

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you cant let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I dont know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

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

Do you love him?How would I know?Youd know.

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other.

We are all changed by this war, Soph. Daniel is your brother now that Rachel is ... gone. Truly your brother. And this baby, he or she is innocent of ... his or her creation.Its hard to forget, she said quietly. And Ill never forgive.But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.Sophie sighed. I suppose, she said, sounding too adult for a girl of he

It is nearly impossible.Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophies 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.

I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.

Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

Hey, Meg, she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. Im applying for grad sc

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as hed unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed.Nerve endings; hed said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]. Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.