“In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“The Mularkeys all saw love as a durable, reliable thing, easy to recognize... Love could be more fragile than a sparrow's bone.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“She knew, too, that love didn’t evaporate. It faded, perhaps, lost its weight like bones left out in the sun, but it… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Isabelle seems unbreakable. She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart. Don't hurt her, that's what I'm saying. If… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
…both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“He wanted to be angry, to scream and rail and feel honest-to-God outrage. But he wasn't that kind of man. His love… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Should that be enough for her? Was she wrong to want passion? To dream of something—someone—more? She’d always imagined love to be… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“I love you, Mommy,” Marah said. To the world at large, perhaps this was an ordinary moment in an ordinary day, but… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often—in… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“When you grow up as I have, a lost girl without any real past, you latch on to the people who seem… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Panic always comes to me in the same way. First, I get a knot in the pit of my stomach that turns… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“She stands at the hairpin turn on Night Road. On either side of her, giant evergreens grow clustered together, rising high into… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all… — 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
“You were struggling to break free of being my daughter but unsure of how to be yourself, while I was afraid to… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“I smile at them, my two boys who should have broken me, each in his own way. Because of them, I know… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall… — 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
I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned,… — 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
