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Kristin Hannah Quotes about Hurt

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

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

Kristin Hannah
Hurt, People, Forgiving
Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each other down, and yet, here they were after everything, together. She needed him now, needed him to remind her that she was live, that she wasn't alone, that she hadn't lost everything.

Kristin Hannah
Hurt, Men, Years
Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.1152, St. Martin's Griffin

We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

Kristin Hannah
Mother, Hurt, Jobs
Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.176, St. Martin's Griffin

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Kristin Hannah
Hurt, Real, Cheer Up

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

Kristin Hannah
Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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.

Kristin Hannah
Girl, Hurt, Weather
Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.1279, Ballantine Books

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

Kristin Hannah
Hurt, Children, Scabs
Kristin Hannah (2014). “Fly Away”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

Kristin Hannah
Hurt, Real, Feelings
Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.314, Macmillan

Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

Kristin Hannah
Hurt, Sometimes, It Hurts

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’

Kristin Hannah
Hurt, Real, Two
Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.385, Ballantine Books

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