Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can.”

— Kristin Hannah

52. “Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”

— Kristin Hannah

53. “I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”

— Kristin Hannah

54. “Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”

— Kristin Hannah

55. “I think, as this war goes on, we will all have to look more deeply. These questions are not about them, but about us.”

— Kristin Hannah

56. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

57. “Why was it that pebbles looked like boulders until they were in your rearview mirror?”

— Kristin Hannah

58. “Every barrier she turned into a gate.”

— Kristin Hannah

59. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

60. “She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.”

— Kristin Hannah

61. “Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it’s there. You get my point?”

— Kristin Hannah

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

— Kristin Hannah

63. “Walk. Run. Ride.”

— Kristin Hannah

64. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

65. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

66. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

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

— Kristin Hannah

68. “It’s not weak, you know. To feel things deeply, to want things. To need.”

— Kristin Hannah

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

— Kristin Hannah

70. “I love you... It feels like I’ve loved you forever. I never knew it could be this way... that love could catch you when you fell.”

— Kristin Hannah

71. “Nightingales mean loss, don’t they? Love that leaves or doesn’t last or never existed in the first place.”

— Kristin Hannah

72. “They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”

— Kristin Hannah

73. “She had always been a woman with laserlike focus. When she started something, there was no halfway, no easy beginning. It was this trait that had broken her.”

— Kristin Hannah

74. “At his kiss, something opened up inside the scraped, empty interior of her heart, unfurled. For the first time, her romantic novels made sense, she realized that the landscape of a woman’s soul could change as quickly as a world at war.”

— Kristin Hannah

75. “Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.”

— Kristin Hannah

76. “That’s one of my major themes in Firefly Lane – that we need to accept that we are good enough, that all we can do is our best.”

— Kristin Hannah

77. “Hope is a fragile thing, easily broken if handled too much.”

— Kristin Hannah

78. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. – FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.”

— Kristin Hannah

79. “You will learn that a lot of things are possible.”

— Kristin Hannah

80. “How can I possibly sleep at a time like this?” He sighed. “You will learn that a lot of things are possible.”

— Kristin Hannah

81. “It wasn’t the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.”

— Kristin Hannah

82. “Antoine took her in his arms. The scent of jasmine was intoxicating, and she knew suddenly, certainly, that from now on, whenever she smelled jasmine, she would remember this good-bye.”

— Kristin Hannah

83. “Love is nothing without faith. I lost that faith a long time ago. Of course you did. And you’re right to blame your dad and me for it, but that doesn’t matter anymore-whose fault it is. What matters is you. Can you let yourself jump without a net? Because that’s what love is, what faith is. You’re looking for a a guarantee, and those come with auto parts. Not love.”

— Kristin Hannah

84. “The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very edge of this great land, and now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again. Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don’t believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can’t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”

— Kristin Hannah

85. “We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.”

— Kristin Hannah

86. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

87. “There was a beauty in chaos, a wildness that hinted at things gone wrong and mistakes overcome.”

— Kristin Hannah

88. “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, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. She reached for the toddler, took him in her arms.”

— Kristin Hannah

89. “As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”

— Kristin Hannah

90. “That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”

— Kristin Hannah

91. “If there’s one thing I never do, it’s stop.”

— Kristin Hannah

92. “Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”

— Kristin Hannah

93. “Asking yourself a question, that’s how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. – REMCO CAMPERT.”

— Kristin Hannah

94. “All this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.”

— Kristin Hannah

95. “To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.”

— Kristin Hannah

96. “A girl was like a kite; without her mother’s strong, steady hold on the string, she might just float away, be lost somewhere among the clouds.”

— Kristin Hannah

97. “From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn’t we? We just knew. I guess that’s what best friends are: parts of each other.”

— Kristin Hannah

98. “No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.”

— Kristin Hannah

99. “You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet. Because of you, I can survive. I hope that you can find strength in me, too, V. That because of me, you will find a way to be strong. Hold my daughter tightly tonight, and tell her that somewhere far away, her papa is thinking of her. And tell her I will return.”

— Kristin Hannah

100. “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 was hot on her cheeks.”

— Kristin Hannah