Kristin Hannah > Quotes

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“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. ”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. ”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“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?”
― Kristin Hannah, Angel Falls

“Do you love him?"
How would I know?"
You'd know.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.”
― Kristin Hannah, Distant Shores

“The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, Angel Falls

“We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“Popularity means people think they know you.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.”
― Kristin Hannah, If You Believe

“It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.”
― Kristin Hannah

“You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?”
― Kristin Hannah

“Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“Books + friendship = book club”
― Kristin Hannah

“....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.”
― Kristin Hannah, On Mystic Lake

“And no one drank just one shot of tequila.”
― Kristin Hannah, If You Believe

“Caro: "Bite me."
Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.”
― Kristin Hannah, On Mystic Lake

“I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.”
― Kristin Hannah, On Mystic Lake

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah

“If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.”
― Kristin Hannah, On Mystic Lake

“Walk. Run. Ride.”
― Kristin Hannah, If You Believe

“She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks”
― Kristin Hannah, On Mystic Lake

“One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more.”
― Kristin Hannah, If You Believe

“It's going to be an interesting ride, seeing who they become in the next four years.
Interesting for you, she said. You're in the stands, watching the game. I'm down on the field, taking the hits. I'm terrified something will go wrong.
What can go wrong? They're smart, curious, loving kids. They've got everything going for them.”
― Kristin Hannah

“Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.”
― Kristin Hannah, Distant Shores

“It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“Nina stared at the woman who had raised her and saw the truth at last.
Her mother was a lioness. A warrior. A woman who’d chosen a life of hell for herself because she wanted to give up and didn’t know how.
And with that small understanding came another, bigger one. Nina suddenly saw her own life in focus. All these years, she’d been traveling the world over, looking for her own truth in other woman’s lives.
But it was here all along, at home with the one woman she’s never even tried to understand. No wonder Nina had never felt finished, never wanted to publish her photographs of the woman. Her quest had always been leading up to this moment, this understanding. She’s been hiding behind the camera, looking through the glass, trying to find herself. But how could she? How could any woman know her own story until she knew her mother’s? ”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, If You Believe

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden