Between Sisters Quotes

“We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“We do not see things as they are,
we see them as we are.” —ANAÏS NIN”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“hope felt like a borrowed sweater that didn’t quite fit.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“It’s too bad we don’t live life backward. I think it was Kierkegaard who said that.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“Now, darlin’, you know that social etiquette is bred into us Southern girls.” “Oh, please. You’re as Southern as Tony Soprano.” Mama sniffed. “I swear, I should have left you by the side of the road in Wheeling, West Virginia.” “You did leave me there.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“Meg is planning your wedding? Honey, that’s like asking the pope to plan a bar mitzvah.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” —LILY TOMLIN”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“The most amazing part of this science-fiction moment was that her mother actually believed what she just said.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“it’s always about family. The past has an irritating way of becoming the present.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“We can’t live other people’s lives for them. Even if we love them.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“In the market, tourists were still crowded around the fish stand. White-aproned vendors threw thirty-pound king salmons through the air to one another: at every toss, tourists snapped photographs.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“Sooner or later, Meg, it’s always about family. The past has an irritating way of becoming the present.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“It was a gray, not-quite-rainy day, the kind where the sky was so low it seemed to bump you in the forehead when you dared to venture outside.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“After that, they got hot dogs at a frankfurter stand and walked down the wharf. At Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe they saw shrunken heads and Egyptian mummies and cheap souvenirs. (Meg didn’t point out the eight-foot-long petrified whale penis that hung suspended from the ceiling; she could just imagine what Ali would tell her friends.)”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“They were always doing that to each other, misinterpreting, imagining the worst. No wonder every conversation bruised one or the other.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“Claire knew she loved her daughter too much; it was dangerous to need another human being so desperately, but Claire had never known any other way to love.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“Talking about Meghann’s painful choice and the lonely years that had followed it wouldn’t help. Her past wasn’t a collection of memories to be worked through; it was like an oversize Samsonite with a bum wheel.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“Claire.” Little things got Claire through the wheelchair ride”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“It used to hurt Claire to remember that day. Not so much anymore. The wound had healed over, grown a layer of thicker skin. She’d long ago quit wishing for a different mother. It was a hope that had once crippled her; she’d had to let it go. Like her dream of a sister who was also a best friend. Some things just didn’t turn out the way you wanted, and a girl could only cry for so many years.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“Meg was tired of being alone and terrified that her life would be a stretch of empty road. A part of her wanted to nod her head, to say yes, and beg for a way to shed her fear. But that was a thin, reedy voice lost amid the screaming blare of self-preservation. The bedrock lesson of her life was that love didn't last. It was better to be lonely and strong than heartbroken and weak.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“That was why Meghann gravitated toward younger men. They still believed in themselves and the world. They hadn't yet learned how life really worked, how dreams were slowly strangled and right and wrong became abstract ideas instead of goalposts for all to see. Those truths usually hit around thirty-five, when you realized that your life was not what you'd wanted.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“I thought: Christ, I’m dead and she’s still yelling at me.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“I’m going to assume you gave this guy a blow job, but a phone call is too personal?”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“him don’t belong in this town.” After”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“We do not see things as they are,
we see them as we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“It had never occurred to either one of them that they wouldn't be together forever. That one of them would have to go on alone.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“What he grieved for was the idea of her. For those few moments—unexpected and sweet—he’d dared to step onto old roads. He’d let”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“It had sneaked up on her. She’d opened a door called anonymous sex and found herself standing in a room filled with unexpected possibilities.”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters

“speechless. The most amazing part of this science-fiction moment was that”
― Kristin Hannah, Between Sisters