I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason. — 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
Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture… — 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
...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness… — 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
![“...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…” quote by Kristin Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/kristin-hannah-1106_cutting_this-fear-was-unbearable-it-unwrapped-wh_966863.png)