The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

you don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.

You know what they say about finding a man in Alaska—the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”

She didn’t want to hope for the best; dashed hopes were worse than no hopes at all.

“It’s scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?”

“A thing can be true and not the truth,