Magic Hour Quotes

“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

“Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“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

“Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing, the staying where you said you'd be and working to keep the love strong.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

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

“Lost is lost; it's when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“What did she wish? She didn't know. When she thought about it, that was the problem with her life, now and always, she'd never known what to wish for until it was too late.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Life was impossibly fragile. If you were lucky enough to have a loving family, you had to hold onto them with infinite”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Don't take peace for granted. It can shatter like glass.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“I don't know how romantic I am, but I only know one way to love...All the way. When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“story is only sad if there’s no happy ending. I guess I always believe in that ending.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. —The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Yesterday I was worried about a lot of things. Today I know what matters.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and jagged edges. It’s not about the falling in love. It’s about the landing,”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“As she neared her destination, she took her glasses off. She hadn't come to the point where she trusted the world as seen through a lens.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“I don’t know how romantic I am, but I only know one way to love.” “How’s that?” “All the way.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and jagged edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing where you said you'd be and working to keep that love strong.' ”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“In small towns, the social dynamic was like concrete; it set early and hard.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Sometimes a mood changes on its own... Sometimes it needs a shove.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Pie is good any time of the day.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and jagged edges. It’s not about the falling in love. It’s about the landing, the staying where you said you’d be and working to keep the love strong.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

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

“She was feeling too much right now, and that was dangerous. Being a good psychiatrist was like reading a novel at forty. You needed to keep the words at arm’s length or everything became a blur.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Perhaps she was looking at the other side of fear. What happened to a child when fear had been the norm forever … did it melt into watchfulness?”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Most of the documented cases had two things in common. First, the children possessed the physical ability to speak, but never acquired actual language to any great degree. Secondly, almost all of these former wild children lived out their lives in mental institutions, forgotten and alone. Only two cases, Memmie and a Ugandan boy found living among the monkeys in 1991, ever truly learned to speak and function in society, and Memmie still died penniless and alone, forgotten. She had never been able to tell people what had happened to her in her youth, how she’d ended up in the dark woods”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Don’t take peace for granted, he’d said to her often. It can shatter like glass.”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

“Girls like you can’t understand,” Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn’t know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime. The”
― Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour