True Colors Quotes

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

“The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.   —”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“Abuse can make an animal mean.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“Sunlight changed all that, and in May, when the rains paused, bright pink and purple azaleas bloomed overnight, and everywhere was lime-green new growth—on the lawns, in the shoots of fragile leaves along the roadsides”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colours

“It was true that sometimes the support of only one person could make a difference.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. —ATTICUS FINCH, FROM HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD  ”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“She learned early on that optimism was a choice”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“As much as believing in hope hurt, not believing would hurt even more.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colours

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. . . . In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression . . . The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“Should that be enough for her? Was she wrong to want passion? To dream of something—someone—more? She’d always imagined love to be turbulent and volatile, an emotion that would sweep her up and break her to pieces and reshape her into someone she couldn’t otherwise have become.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“Optimism was not only naive. Often it could be cruel”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“That was the thing about family. They were like elephants. No one ever forgot a thing. Especially a failure, and a funny failure was as durable and reusable as plastic.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colours

“No rain, no rainbows.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colours

“They’d always fought and made up and gone on; sisterhood was like that, a quilt made up of all the scraps, good and bad.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“There might be an animal called absolute truth, but it couldn’t be caged and certainly didn’t roam the halls of justice.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“Being alone in a crowd is the worst, I think. Everyone belongs somewhere except you.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. . . . In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression . . . The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so. —JOHN BOORMAN, FILM DIRECTOR”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“I love my dog,” Myrtle said crisply, “but I keep him chained up when the bitch across the street is in heat.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. —ATTICUS FINCH, FROM HARPER LEE’S
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“uniformed”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“Between Sisters”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“to her booth, Vivi Ann, Noah,”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“She’d always imagined love to be turbulent and volatile, an emotion that would sweep her up and break her to pieces and reshape her into someone she couldn’t otherwise have become.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“Grabbing”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“out of her bag and slid it across the desk. “That’s why I’m giving Noah this one opportunity to save his grade. If he’ll fill this journal”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“golden”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“thrust deep inside her body,”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“kept stepping into the same mud puddle and expecting it to be dry.”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“saving them money and helping them out. “Dad?” she said. “Could you stay”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors