Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “It doesn’t hurt, it’s just my body. They can’t touch my soul.”

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102. “Home was a state of mind, the peace that came from being who you were and living an honest life.”

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

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104. “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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105. “Samwise Gamgee would never leave Frodo like this. No hero would ever do this. But books were only a reflection of real life, not the thing itself.”

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

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107. “Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”

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108. “It’s scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?”

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109. “It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.”

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

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111. “Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place. I read about places I can barely imagine and lose myself in journeys to foreign lands to save girls who didn’t know they were really princesses.”

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112. “The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women’s lives.”

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113. “You have so much love to give. It must hurt to hold it in all the time.”

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114. “It was otherworldly somehow, magical in its vast expanse, an incomparable landscape of soaring glacier-filled white mountains that ran the length of the horizon, knife-tip points pressed high into a cloudless cornflower-blue sky.”

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115. “It’s like his back is broken, Mama had said, and you don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you. He needs me. Us.”

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116. “They were trapped, by environment and finances, but mostly by the sick, twisted love that bound her parents together.”

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

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118. “Don’t think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.”

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119. “I don’t know the right thing to do anymore. I want to protect Sophie and keep her safe, but what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?”

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120. “Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can.”

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121. “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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122. “Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that’s a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I’ll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire.”

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123. “There is no middle ground, no safe place; not here, in the Great Alone.”

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124. “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.”

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125. “She’s sick and she’s been treated badly, but she can’t be gone. She had the heart of a lion.”

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

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127. “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 felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she’d never stop.”

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128. “All at once, it seemed, the leaves of cottonwood trees around the cabin turned golden and whispered to themselves, then curled into black flutes and floated to the ground in crispy, lacy heaps.”

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129. “The father who went off to war was not the one who came home. She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other.”

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130. “She waited for you in a thousand different ways.”

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131. “You don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.”

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132. “The library. Books held the answer to every question.”

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

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134. “I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”

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135. “The smile he gave her was barely one at all. “We are all fragile, Isabelle. It’s the thing we learn in war.”

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136. “Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.”

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137. “She was wiser than she’d been before. Now she knew how fragile life and love were. Maybe she would love him for only this day, or maybe for only the next week, or maybe until she was an old, old woman. Maybe he would be the love of her life... or her love for the duration of this war... or maybe he would only be her first love. All she really knew was that in this terrible, frightening world, she had stumbled into something unexpected. And she would not let it go again.”

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138. “Thoughts – even fears – were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.”

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139. “This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”

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140. “Men tell stories,” I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. “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. Your sister was as desperate to forget it as I was. Maybe that was another mistake I made – letting her forget. Maybe we should have talked about it.”

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

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142. “The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”

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143. “Isabelle had always been impetuous, a force of nature, really, a girl who liked to break rules. Countless nuns and teachers had learned that she could be neither controlled nor contained.”

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144. “He saw her beauty, even in the half-light, she could tell, but he looked past it. Either that, or he was smart enough to see that she wanted to offer more to the world than a pretty face.”

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145. “I am in awe of her fire. Even if I’m the one she sets on fire.”

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146. “Summer ended. Hot golden days gave way to washed-out skies and falling rain. Isabelle was so focused on the escape route that she hardly noticed the change in weather. On.”

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147. “The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very end 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.”

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148. “Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst?”

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149. “I want to imagine there will be peace when I am gone, that I will see all of the people I have loved and lost. At least that I will be forgiven. I.”

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150. “She was crying for it all at last – for the pain and loss and fear and anger, for the war and what it had done to her and to all of them, for the knowledge of evil she could never shake, for the horror of where she’d been and what she’d done to survive.”

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