Night Road Quotes

“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

“In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“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

“Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see how special you are, he isn’t good enough for you.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“It’s a promise ring,” he said solemnly. “The lady at the store said it’s what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“I look at people who aren’t us and I hate them.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t their child who had died. She heard I’m so sorry until she despised those words as she had never despised anything in her life, and she discovered an anger in her soul that was new.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“There was a beauty in chaos, a wildness that hinted at things gone wrong and mistakes overcome.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind. —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, ODE:”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Why was it that pebbles looked like boulders until they were in your rearview mirror?”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“People think love is an act of faith,” her mother said. “Sometimes it’s an act of will.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“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

“A watering system had kept everything alive; plants, like people, learned to grow in rocky terrain.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Two choices: ask for honesty and try to roll with unwanted truths or stick your head in the sand and be lied to.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“her daughter was here, with her, inside of her. She’d always been here, even when Jude was too broken to look for her. But it was time now to say, “Good-bye, baby … I love you.” For the first time in years, she believed that her daughter could hear her.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“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. Maybe”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“She knew Miles didn’t understand. Last night he’d made that sound—that sigh of desperation or despair—when she couldn’t change into a nightgown. He didn’t understand how fragile she felt. If she lifted her arms, they might break off.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“We are gonna be Harry and Hermione. Friends forever.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Toliko ga je voljela. Ta ljubav ne samo da joj je bila u krvi — bila je to sama krv. Nije znala imaju li svi drugi pravo kad kažu da će ta ljubav jednoga dana izblijedjeti poput stare fotografije. Odakle da zna? Znala je samo da je ljubav prema njemu ono najbolje u njoj i da bi joj bez nje srce bilo prazno.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“I read somewhere that grief can be like breaking a bone. You have to set it right or it can ache forever. I pray that someday you’ll understand that and forgive me.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“The problem was that she believed. She wasn’t sure what she believed in—was it God? goodness? herself? She had no answer to the question; she knew only that she owned this belief that if she did the right thing, if she always did her best and took responsibility for her mistakes and lived a moral life, she would succeed.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“You need to talk about her. You need to remember her and grieve.” “I do nothing but grieve.” “No. Your grief is an artery that’s been clamped off. If you don’t take that clamp off and let it flow, you’ll never heal.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“spring had lightened more than a gloomy sky; it had lightened her way. She could glimpse a new future for herself, a time when she could be the captain of her own journey.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Her memento made no sound when it landed; it bothered her, as if she were the only one of three of them that left no mark somehow.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room, Lexi. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make. And I know you’re young, but that don’t mean a thing. Do you believe in how you feel? That’s what matters.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Guilty, Your Honor.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Before, she would have seen disorder here, plants that grew where they weren’t supposed to and bloomed with abandon. She would have gone in search of her tools—clippers and trowels and stakes—and set about the task of re-creation. Now, though, on this bright morning, she saw what she hadn’t seen before. There was a beauty in chaos, a wildness that hinted at things gone wrong and mistakes overcome.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind. —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, ODE:
INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY
FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road

“Maybe you need to be broken a little before you can put yourself back together.”
― Kristin Hannah, Night Road