The Kristin Hannah Collection Quotes

“New York was a city that showed off its greatness, sought to make tourists look at man’s accomplishments with awe. D.C. knew that man’s greatness lay not in stone and steel, but rather in ideas and decisions.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“No foreign sky protected me, no stranger’s wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot, survivor of that time, that place. —ANNA AKHMATOVA, FROM POEMS OF AKHMATOVA, TRANSLATED BY STANLEY KUNITZ, WITH MAX HAYWARD”
― Kristin Hannah, The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“You shine a light on hard times. This is what your pictures do. You do not let people look away from that which hurts.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“Before this trip and all that she’d learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“Not, not mine: it’s somebody else’s wound.
I could never have borne it. So take the thing
that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground.
Whisk the lamps away . . .
Night.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“You are an inspiration, Teresa, in so many ways. Somehow you balance it all—being a soldier, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, a wife, and a mother—and you do it with grace and courage. You are truly an example of everything that is right with our country.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“voice. And maybe”
― Kristin Hannah, The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front