Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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.”

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53. “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.”

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54. “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.”

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

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

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57. “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.”

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58. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”

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59. “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.”

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60. “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.”

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61. “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.”

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62. “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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63. “She was so tired of being strong.”

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

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65. “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.”

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66. “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.”

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67. “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.”

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

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

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

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72. “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.”

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

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74. “Don’t worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.” – Grandpa Wolcott.”

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75. “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.”

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76. “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.”

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77. “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.”

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78. “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.”

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

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80. “Hope is a coin I carry; an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. There were times in my journey when it and the hope it represented were the only things that kept me going.”

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81. “I belong to a generation that didn’t expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.”

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82. “Alaska isn’t about who you were when you headed this way. It’s about who you become.”

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83. “Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “Love and fear. The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.”

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86. “She was so tired of being considered disposable.”

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87. “In Alaska you can make one mistake. One. The second one will kill you.”

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88. “You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet.”

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89. “What is, is, and what isn’t, isn’t.”

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90. “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. Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”

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91. “She realized that the landscape of a woman’s soul could change as quickly as a world at war.”

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92. “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.”

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93. “Do you want. To fix it up? Live here?” “Maybe. Or maybe we’ll burn it down and rebuild. Ashes make great soil.”

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94. “From now on, she was Juliette Gervaise, code name the Nightingale.”

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95. “Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”

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

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97. “The Great Alone,” Leni said. That was what Robert Service called Alaska.”

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98. “It doesn’t hurt, it’s just my body. They can’t touch my soul.”

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99. “You have a child, so you know. You are my heart, baby girl. You are everything I did right. And I want you to know I would do it all again, every wonderful terrible second of it. I would do years and years of it again for one minute with you.”

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100. “I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.”

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