Top 100 Kristin Hannah Quotes
#1. So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.
It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.
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#4. Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.
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#5. It was the very bleakness of winter that made spring possible.
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#6. 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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#8. 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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#9. That's why you're so strong and I'm not." "You will have to be," Isabelle said. "For Sophie." Vianne drew in a breath. And there it was. The reason she couldn't eat a bowl of arsenic or throw herself in front of a train.
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#10. Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.
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#11. Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. - REMCO CAMPERT
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#12. In the years that she had been tying scraps to the branches, the tree had died and the fruit had turned bitter. The other apple trees were hale and healthy, but this one, the tree of her remembrances, was as black and twisted as the bombed-out town behind it.
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#13. She was crying for it all at last
for the pain and loss and fear and anger, for the war and what it had done to her and to all of them, for the knowledge of evil she could never shake, for the horror of where she'd been and what she'd done to survive.
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#14. I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.
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#15. And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.
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#16. One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more.
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#17. 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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#18. In sleep, I dream about the Comfort Lodge and Daniel
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#19. 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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#20. To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?
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#21. The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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#22. she'd always believed that she didn't belong. It was, she realized, an ugly bit of baggage that she'd carried here from her youth, and she'd been so damned busy hanging on to it that she'd failed to notice that the bags were empty.
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#23. them, she didn't want to know. As they neared Le Jardin, Vianne struggled to push the heavy wheelbarrow
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#24. I feel like Dorothy, back in Kansas, a black-and-white girl in a black-and-white world, with memories in color.
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#26. At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.
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#27. Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.
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#28. Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisal.
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#29. How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under a sky lit up by fireworks, but an ordinary Sunday morning when your husband brought you a glass of water, two aspirins, and a heating pad for your cramps?
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#30. In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - ALBERT CAMUS
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#31. For years, she'd mistaken habit and affection for true love. She had assumed that the love she gave her husband was a reflection of the love he felt for her, and now, because of her blindness, she was alone.
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#33. Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
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#35. Johnny looked at her. "I think we can't make people love us."
"Including our parents?"
Especially our parents.
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#36. Beauty was just another way to discount her, to not see her.
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#37. Summer ended. Hot golden days gave way to washed-out skies and falling rain. Isabelle was so focused on the escape route that she hardly noticed the change in weather. On
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#38. Elizabeth: "Maybe he'll surprise you."
Meghann: "Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.
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#40. 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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#41. singing along with the radio. It was blasting a song by the Butthole Surfers.
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#42. She gave herself over to the sensations of the kiss, let it become the whole of her universe, and knew finally how it felt to be enough for someone.
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#43. 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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#44. Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.
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#45. She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
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#46. I could tell you it was a Jean Valjean sort of stay and you would think it was romantic.
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#47. Don't think about who they [the Nazis] are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you [Mother Superior to Vianne].
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#48. 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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#49. Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm 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?
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#51. 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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#52. Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.
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#53. I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
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#55. But when he looked at her - and she looked at him - they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to.
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#56. I know what it is like; some images, once seen, can never be forgotten.
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#57. Lost is lost; it's when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you.
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#58. With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.
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#59. Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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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#63. Where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is
forgiveness.
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#64. Your children are French-born citizens," the policeman said. "You may leave them here. They're not on my list.
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#65. After so many solitary years, spent tucked away in convents and forgotten in boarding schools, Isabelle never took for granted the fact that now she had friends, people whom she cared about and who cared about her.
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#66. Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.
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#67. She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.
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#68. Get what?" she asked, but she didn't want to hear. "That every time we kiss, it's good-bye.
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#70. She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.
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#71. 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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#73. Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.
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#74. To herself and wiping tears from her eyes, which turned
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#75. For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered.
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#76. She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.
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#77. You're not alone, and you're not the one in charge," Mother said gently. "Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God - and each other and ourselves - in times as dark as these.
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#79. When I met your father, it was magic. Not for him - not then - but for me. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can look into a pair of eyes and see your whole future.
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#80. Nora's gaze was steady. "No matter how dark a place is, there are always moments of light. That's what I passed on to you and Caroline, my moments of light.
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#82. Kept stepping into the same mud puddle and expecting it to be dry.
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#83. 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?
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#85. Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart.
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#86. They had been friends in the way that only girls could be - they wore each other's clothes and slept at each other's houses and told each other every little secret. They promised to always stay friends.
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#87. 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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#88. Kate heard the bravado in her friend's voice and saw it in her eyes. "I prayed for you." "You did?" Tully asked. "Wow. Thanks." Kate didn't know what to say to that. To her, praying was like brushing your teeth before bed, just something you did. Tully
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#89. I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. What was love when put up against war?
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#90. You were struggling to break free of being my daughter but unsure of how to be yourself, while I was afraid to let you go. It's the circle of love.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#95. Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out."
Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.
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#96. I am stronger than I use to be. As I say the words, I realize the truth of them. I am stronger now. Strong enough to reach for this dream ... and strong enough to handle disappointment.
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#97. Fleetingly he wondered what the man's life had been like, where it had gone so desperately wrong. No one tried to end up like this, alone and defenseless and poor, eking a living from the harsh Arizona desert.
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#98. Sometimes you have to do everything right and follow the rules. You have to wait until all your ducks are in a row before you make a move. And other times ... like now ... you have to say 'what the hell' and go for it.
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#100. In love we see who we want to be; in war we see who we are.
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