Quotes by Kristin Hannah

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything youll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that theyve made you the man that you are.

Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but theyre like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them.

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.

Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. Im going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie.Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?Sure. Can I have some money?

Hed learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.

Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?

. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

The next morning, Angie woke with the sun...Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.Once again shed watered her mattress with memories.

Girls like you cant understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didnt know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

He was afraid that the secrets shed kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

but that shadow self of hers wasnt so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

Elizabeth: Maybe hell surprise you.Meghann: Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

Caro: Bite me.Ruby: I gave that up in kindergarten.

If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother. He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted; to be loved and admired. Now i think perhaps Id like to be known.

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.