“Then he left her there, standing along, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“As she neared her destination, she took her glasses off. She hadn't come to the point where she trusted the world as… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“He has been in her heart for so long it is as if she knows him already, but she doesn't. She does… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“But it had gotten so boring, all that crying and wanting and needing. This year she'd realized that she'd never be like… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Vianne didn’t hesitate. She knew now that no one could be neutral—not anymore—and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie’s life,… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
“Antoine took her in his arms. The scent of jasmine was intoxicating, and she knew suddenly, certainly, that from now on, whenever she smelled… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
what shall we drink to?" "How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
“I was not good at the whole making-death-a-positive-transition thing. How could I? I wanted her to fight to the last breath. It was a… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
“Kate heard the bravado in her friend’s voice and saw it in her eyes. “I prayed for you.” “You did?” Tully asked. “Wow. Thanks.”… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
“The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
“So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory. It was… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
“Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
“I want to imagine there will be peace when I am gone, that I will see all of the people I have loved and… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone? — Kristin Hannah Copy Share
