Top 100 Kristin Hannah Quotes
#1. Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.
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#2. Vianne knew Rachel wasn't asking how to hide in the barn; she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper "good-bye." "I can't leave her.
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#3. Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.
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#4. Where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is
forgiveness.
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#5. Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.
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#6. With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.
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#8. It hurts almost more than I can bear. Tears sting my eyes again; I wipe them away impatiently. I am so tired of crying, so tired of feeling like half a person, but I don't know how to change things... (I have never felt so lost and alone.)
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#9. wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - ATTICUS FINCH, FROM HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
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#10. and she smiles at me, my best friend, with her long, tangled blond hair and thick eyelashes and her smile that lights up any room. My other half. The girl who took my hand all those years ago and didn't let go until she had to.
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#11. Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart.
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#13. 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.
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#14. what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?
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#15. No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. - ANNA AKHMATOVA, FROM POEMS OF AKHMATOVA, TRANSLATED BY STANLEY KUNITZ, WITH MAX HAYWARD
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#16. Girls like you can't understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.
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#17. She was touching his body with her tongue, and he felt it there, but somehow what she was doing went deeper. As if that gentle, moist tongue of hers were flicking his heart as well.
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#18. She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
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#19. What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.
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#20. singing along with the radio. It was blasting a song by the Butthole Surfers.
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#21. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?
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#22. Beauty was just another way to discount her, to not see her.
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#25. Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"
Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.
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#26. But sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.
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#28. Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.
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#29. The lights are going out all over Europe; We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. - SIR EDWARD GREY, ON WORLD WAR I
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#30. She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.
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#31. I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.
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#32. It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.
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#33. The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - MARCEL PROUST
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#34. She learned then that some relationships ended without fireworks or tears or regret. They ended in silence. It
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#35. Quit pouting, girl. All a Milquetoast ever gets is wet.
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#36. In the last few moments before dawn, Vianne sat near the mound of fresh-turned earth. She wanted to pray, but her faith felt far away, the remnant of another woman's life.
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#37. Talking about Meghann's painful choice and the lonely years that had followed it wouldn't help. Her past wasn't a collection of memories to be worked through; it was like an oversize Samsonite with a bum wheel.
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#39. Hope was an elevator right now, broken from its cables.
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#40. She fought back the only way she knew how - by caring for her fellow prisoners and helping them to stay strong.
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#41. The truth of my circumstance climbs into the bed with me and takes up too much room.
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#42. without the aid of alcohol. "There are no parties to attend," he
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#44. Will." "I just want to keep you safe." I smile. Americans can be
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#45. this wasn't the end. She had to remember that. Each day she lived there was a chance for salvation. She couldn't give up. She could never give up.
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#46. The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.
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#47. A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.
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#48. This is what they have done to us. We are afraid of our own shadows." She
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#50. I'm afraid, I say, surprising myself with the admission. I can't remember admitting such a thing in years, although it has often been true. Four
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#51. One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She
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#52. We are all fragile. It's the thing we learn in war
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#53. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.
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#54. Ever since you were a girl, you've been running for what you wanted ... Now you're lost, but you're still running full speed ... How will you ever figure out what you want when everything is a blur?
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#55. Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.
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#56. Love shows us who we want to be. War shows us who we are.
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#57. Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. The next morning, Angie woke with the sun ... Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.
Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate
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#64. Didier. Anyway, there is a man, a printer, risking his life to make tracts that we can distribute. Maybe if we can get the French to
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#65. I just want to keep you safe.
I smile. Americans can be so naive.
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#66. But he wasn't that man anymore. He had lost too much, and in his loss, he'd thrown more away.
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#67. He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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?
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#70. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
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#71. It had been the first kiss for both of them, and to this day, when Dean kissed a woman, he longed for the smell of the sea.
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#72. For the first time in his life, he was going to be a goddamn hero.
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#73. In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.
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#74. Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can.
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#75. My husband ran off with his secretary. His male secretary. the only passion I have lately seems to center around buying a handgun. Unfortunately, I can't decide which one of us to shoot.
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#76. Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it.
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#77. What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?
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#78. Stop thinking about what you've lost, and think about what you have left.
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#79. I don't know why it's so easy for me to forget how much I love her. We start fighting, and ... " "Sisters.
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#80. The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremities.
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#82. I thought change started from within."
"Sometimes. Sometimes it's forced upon you.
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#83. Tante Isabelle says it's better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you'll fly before you fall.
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#84. They hadn't loved each other enough in the time they had, and then time ran out.
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#85. He has been in her heart for so long it is as if she knows him already, but she doesn't. She does not know what to say or how to say it, and suddenly she is afraid that there is a wrong way to move forward, a mistake that once made cannot be undone.
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#86. We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again.
I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.
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#87. 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.
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#88. This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best to move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there's a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day ...
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#89. Night rather than to gobble it all up at once. And
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#90. Hello?"
'It's me. I'm having a crisis.'
"I'll be there in twenty minutes.
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#92. I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I'll do it.
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#93. There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T. S. Eliot, from "East Coker
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#94. Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
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#95. Bitterness would do you good. All that smiling and pretending of yours would give me hives.
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#96. We have to try to save him or we are as bad as they are, she
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#98. Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
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#99. We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.
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#100. She's sick and she's been treated badly, but she can't be gone. She had the heart of a lion.
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