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“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.”
― Kristen Hannah, Firefly Lane

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“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

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

“You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.”
― Kristin Hannah

“Then he left her there, standing along, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“Rain Valley newcomers pretty much fell into two groups: people running away from something and people running away from everything.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“But it had gotten so boring, all that crying and wanting and needing. This year she'd realized that she'd never be like her mom, and the realization had freed her. She stopped trying to get good grades and make good friends, and do everything well. She had flourished in her rebellion, reveled in it.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Show us your true colors, who you used to be.”
― Kristin Hannah

“what shall we drink to?"
"How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“He'd always had a joke for Francis in the confessional, a 'sin' that could be counted on to cause a young priest to grin behind the safety of the wooden shield. Bless me, Father, for I put tuna in the chicken salad.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“I would not love him again. Not if I had known how it would feel to live with a broken heart.”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“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?”
― Kristin Hannah, Winter Garden

“You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's path.

You are not on your own path.

If you follow someone else's way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work