The Four Winds Quotes

“A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Courage is fear you ignore.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“It wasn’t the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Books had always been her solace; novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her own imagination.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave." - Grandpa Wolcott”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. You taught me love. You, first in the whole world, and my love for you will outlive me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“As we know, there are lessons to be learned from history. Hope to be derived from hardships faced before. We've gone through bad times before and survived, even thrived. History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another--what we have in common--that will save us.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“I am in awe of her fire. Even if I'm the one she sets on fire.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“I say folks who hang on to the past miss their chance for a future.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“You are of me, Loreda, in a way that can never be broken. Not by words or anger or actions or time. I love you. I will always love you.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Elsa knew that a library card—a thing they’d taken for granted all of their lives—meant there was still a future.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Apparently you couldn’t stop loving some people, or needing their love, even when you knew better.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“That was the first time her grandfather had leaned down and whispered, Be brave, into her ear. And then, Or pretend to be. It’s all the same.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very end of this great land. And now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown. Elsa had survived it by being quiet, by not demanding or seeking attention, by accepting that she was loved, but unliked.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“my love for you will outlive me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Although she hadn’t seen her parents for years, it turned out that a parent’s disapproval was a powerful, lingering voice that shaped and defined one’s self-image.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Heartache had been a part of her life so long it had become as familiar as the color of her hair or the slight curve in her spine. Sometimes it was the lens through which she viewed her world and sometimes it was the blindfold she wore so she didn't see. But it was always there. (p117)”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. —CÉSAR CHÁVEZ”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Love is what remains when everything else is gone. This is what I should have told my children when we left Texas. What I will tell them tonight. Not that they will understand yet. How could they?
I am forty years old, and I just learned this fundamental truth myself.
Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.
I am in love. There it is. I've written it down. Soon I will say it out loud. To him.
I am in love. As crazy and ridiculous and implausible as it sounds, I am in love. And I am loved in return.
And this-love-gives me the courage I need for today.
The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very edge of this great land, and now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again.
Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don't believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself.
It sounds like motherhood to me.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Jean reached over for Elsa’s hand and held it. Elsa hadn’t known until right then how much difference a friend could make. How one person could lift your spirit just enough to keep you upright.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“She'd learned how to disappear in place long ago. She was like one of those animals whose defense mechanism is to blend into the landscape and become invisible. It was her way of dealing with rejection: Say nothing and disappear. Never fight back. If she remained quiet enough, people eventually forgot she was there and left her alone.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Fear is smart until…” He headed for the door, paused as he reached for the knob. “Until what?” He looked back at her. “Until you realize you’re afraid of the wrong thing.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“There was something she hadn't known when she went into marriage and became a mother that she knew now: it was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“The things your parents say and the things your husband doesn’t say become a mirror, don’t they? You see yourself as they see you, and no matter how far you come, you bring that mirror with you.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Maybe that's how God provides. He put me in your path and you in mine.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds