Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Finding your passion isn’t just about careers and money. It’s about finding your authentic self. The one you’ve buried beneath other people’s needs.”

— Kristin Hannah

2. “It’s not intentions that matter. It’s actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.”

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3. “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.”

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4. “A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”

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5. “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

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6. “One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don’t do in life.”

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7. “Real friends. The kind that don’t purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.”

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8. “And no one drank just one shot of tequila.”

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9. “In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.”

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10. “But now it is time to look ahead, not behind.”

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11. “If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride.”

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12. “You know what they say about finding a man in Alaska – the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”

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13. “Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That’s the only way for it to get better.”

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14. “Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”

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15. “There are always times in life that you don’t fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That’s what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you’re most afraid.”

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16. “She wanted to say “Don’t leave me”, but she couldn’t do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her.”

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17. “And maybe that was how it was supposed to be, how life unfolded when you lived it long enough. Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps, was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly because you never knew when a strong heart could just give out.”

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18. “Courage is fear you ignore.”

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19. “You see things and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were And say, ‘Why not?’” – George Bernard Shaw.”

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20. “In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – ALBERT CAMUS.”

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21. “Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.”

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22. “You’re stronger than you think you are. You can get through this, whatever happens, you can get through it. Just don’t forget... the rain. It’s an angel’s tears. And every glass you’ve ever seen is half full. Don’t let yourself forget that. I know what it does to a person... forgetting that hope is out there.”

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23. “It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.”

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24. “To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you’ll ever love anyone that deeply again?”

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25. “But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”

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26. “Tante Isabelle says it’s better to be bold than meek. She says if you jump off a cliff at least you’ll fly before you fall.”

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27. “Because of them, I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”

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28. “Isabelle had always simply reacted in her life. Someone left her behind; she followed. Someone told her she couldn’t do something; she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate.”

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29. “Love is what remains when everything else is gone.”

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30. “I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.”

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31. “I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I’ll do it.”

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32. “In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.”

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33. “It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.”

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34. “Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.”

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35. “Memories are who we are. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.”

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36. “With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.”

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37. “I’m here, Mom,” Julien says quietly, taking my suitcase, lifting it easily over the obstruction. The sound of his voice reminds me that I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”

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38. “She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.”

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39. “Maybe time didn’t heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.”

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40. “A thing can be true and not the truth, now shush.”

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41. “You can run away from your life and your past, but there’s no way to distance yourself from your own heart.”

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42. “The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.”

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43. “There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” – T. S. Eliot, from “East Coker.”

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44. “How do you keep hold of a dream like that?” “With both hands.”

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45. “Walk. Run. Ride.”

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46. “Love had turned into loss and she’d pushed it away, but somehow, impossibly, a bit of that love had remained. A girl’s love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.”

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47. “A dad... he teaches responsibility and accountability, but a mom... ah, a mom teaches her child to dream, to reach for the stars and to believe in fairy tales.”

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48. “He had abandoned her after all; it filled her with the kind of bone-deep disappointment she knew so well.”

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49. “If you’re going through hell, keep going. – WINSTON CHURCHILL.”

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50. “You’re not alone, and you’re not the one in charge,” Mother said gently. “Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God – and each other and ourselves – in times as dark as these.”

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