Vianne Quotes

#1. Vianne had been improvising recipes for years, and people, to her mind, were not that much different than food. Both were highly predictable if you paid attention. First,

Kenley Davidson

#2. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it." Mother

Kristin Hannah

#3. A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren't a lie or useless.

Kristin Hannah

#4. It's not forgetting we need, Vianne," he said, leaning down to kiss her. "It's remembering.

Kristin Hannah

#5. A generation of men were going off to war. Again.

Don't think about it, Vianne told herself. Don't remember what it was like last time when the men limped home, faces burned, missing arms and legs...

Kristin Hannah

#6. Protest. Vianne was not alone in her desire to pretend

Kristin Hannah

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

Kristin Hannah

#8. Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it.

Kristin Hannah

#9. 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.

Kristin Hannah

#10. This is no place for anyone," Vianne

Kristin Hannah

#11. 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].

Kristin Hannah

#12. 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.

Kristin Hannah

#13. them, she didn't want to know. As they neared Le Jardin, Vianne struggled to push the heavy wheelbarrow

Kristin Hannah

#14. 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.

Kristin Hannah

#15. Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#16. If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want.

Laura Osnes

#17. Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.

Patrick Kane

#19. I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

Joanne Harris

#20. Storytellers are very great liars.

G.K. Werner