Kristin Hannah Quotes - Page 3

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

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.

It’s a promise ring,” he said solemnly. “The lady at the store said it’s what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

what shall we drink to?" "How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.

Books + friendship = book club

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie." Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?" "Sure. Can I have some money?

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man's heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then...nothing.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate