Kristin Hannah Quotes

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

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.

Honestly, I believe that the mother-daughter relationship is magical, complex, potentially dangerous, profoundly powerful, and deeply transformative. To put it simply, all of us have this relationship, and in a very real way, "none of us comes out alive." We are all formed first as daughters and then tested as mothers. There's nothing like motherhood to make us reassess how we were as daughters.

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.