“It’s never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you… — 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
“That’s the funny thing about writing your life story. You start out trying to remember dates and times and names. You think… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“He thinks one’s life can be distilled to a narrative that has a beginning and an end. He knows nothing about the… — 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
“He leans close and kisses each of my cheeks, whispering, "I loved her all of my life," as he draws back.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Chaos. Dust. Crowds. The street was a living, breathing dragon of humanity, inching forward, wheezing dirt, honking horns; people yelling for help,… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“He saw his whole life in her eyes, all his dreams and hopes and fears.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image