Fly Away Quotes

“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

“She waited for you in a thousand different ways.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

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

“but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“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

“Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it’s there. You get my point?”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“I was not good at the whole making-death-a-positive-transition thing. How could I? I wanted her to fight to the last breath. It was a mistake. I should have listened to her fear, comforted her. Instead I'd promised her that everything would be okay, that she would heal.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“and she smiles at me, my best friend, with her long, tangled blond hair and thick eyelashes and her smile that lights up any room. My other half. The girl who took my hand all those years ago and didn’t let go until she had to.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“When I met your father, it was magic. Not for him—not then—but for me. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you can look into a pair of eyes and see your whole future.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“I was always a little girl, lost in Oz, looking for a way to believe that there was no place like home …”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“I have never known how to say goodbye. It is a failing that has been with me all of my life. It’s especially problematic, given how often partings have come up.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“When you grow up as I have, a lost girl without any real past, you latch on to the people who seem to love you. At least that’s what I did. It started early, my holding on too tightly and needing too much. I always craved love. The unconditional, even unearned kind. I needed someone to say it to me. Not to sound poor me, but my mother never said it.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Examination was the only solace. Instead of looking away from heartache, you needed to crawl inside of it, wear it like a warm coat on a cold day. There was peace in loss, beauty in death, freedom in regret.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Grief is a sneaky thing, always coming and going like some guest you didn't invite and can't turn away. She wants this grief, although she'd never admit it. lately, it's the only thing that feels real.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Love. Family. Laughter. That’s what I remember when it’s all said and done. For so much of my life I thought I didn’t do enough or want enough. I guess I can be forgiven for my stupidity. I was young. I want my children to know how proud I am of them, and how proud I am of me. We were everything we needed—you and Daddy”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“When you’re a mom, you learn about fear. You’re always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather. There is nothing that can’t hurt our kids, I swear.” She turned. “The irony is they need us to be strong.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last. That’s why your life flashes before your eyes when you die—you’re picking the memories you want. It’s like packing.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Once you'd learned how bad life could go, and how quickly, you tried to protect those who remained.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“I don’t know how to believe in her, but I don’t know how to let go, either. She’s my mother. After all of it, all the times she’s held on to me and all the times she’s let me go, she’s still woven through me, a part of the fabric of my soul, and it means something, that she’s here.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Hope was such a dangerous thing, so ephemeral and amorphous; it didn’t fit in the concrete world of words spoken aloud.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Examination was the only solace. Instead of looking away from heartache, you needed to crawl inside of it, wear it like a warm coat on a cold day. There was peace in loss, beauty in death, freedom in regret. She had learned that the hard way. She”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future. She”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“the sprawling branches of the maple tree were plush with autumn.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away

“Don’t stop believing until you have to, and certainly don’t stop then.”
― Kristin Hannah, Fly Away