Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Dad wanted a new beginning. Needed it. And Mama needed him to be happy.”

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252. “Does one follow a leader blindly?”

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253. “Mama had quit high school and “lived on love.” That was how she always put it, the fairy tale. Now Leni was old enough to know that like all fairy tales, theirs was filled with thickets and dark places and broken dreams, and runaway girls.”

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254. “Sometimes you have to do everything right and follow the rules. You have to wait until all your ducks are in a row before you make a move. And other times... like now... you have to say ‘what the hell’ and go for it.”

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255. “She tried to take strength from that, to truly believe it, but hope was becoming difficult to hold on to. Each passing day had sanded her down, weakened the walls of her denial; in places, fear called itself truth and poked through.”

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256. “And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don’t know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.”

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257. “Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth.”

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258. “Remember this, she thought. The way the light caught in his unruly hair, the love in his brown eyes, the chapped lips that had kissed her only an hour ago, in the darkness.”

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259. “Alaska was full of fringe-ists. People who believed in weirdo things and prayed to exclusionary Gods and filled their basements with equal measures of guns and Bibles. If you wanted to live in a place where no one told you what to do and didn’t care if you parked a trailer in your yard or had a fridge on your porch, Alaska was the state for you.”

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260. “In the last few moments before dawn, Vianne sat near the mound of fresh-turned earth. She wanted to pray, but her faith felt far away, the remnant of another woman’s life.”

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261. “Life changes, whether you want it to or not.”

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262. “A searing, cleansing, enveloping love blew her heart into a million tiny pieces and reshaped it.”

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263. “Leni sighed. How was Mama’s unshakable belief in Dad any different than his fear of Armageddon? Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?”

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264. “If I’ve learned nothing else in the past few days, it’s that happiness must be fought for.”

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265. “History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another – what we have in common – that will save us.”

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266. “Remember, cara, hard times don’t last. Land and family do.”

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267. “Whenever I write about motherhood – and I write about it a lot – I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.”

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268. “Fear and shame she understood. Fear made you run and hide and shame made you stay quiet, but this anger wanted something else. Release.”

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269. “The darkness seemed to be rising rather than the sun falling. As if darkness were the natural order around here.”

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270. “The things your parents say and the things your husband doesn’t say become a mirror, don’t they? You see yourself as they see you, and no matter how far you come, you bring that mirror with you.”

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271. “In literature, death was many things – a message, catharsis, retribution. There were deaths that came from a beating heart that stopped and deaths of another kind, a choice made, like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. Death made you cry, filled you with sadness, but in the best of her books, there was peace, too, satisfaction, a sense of the story ending as it should. In real life, she saw, it wasn’t like that. It was sadness opening up inside of you, changing how you saw the world.”

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272. “I have never known how to say goodbye. It is a failing that has been with me all of my life. It’s especially problematic, given how often partings have come up.”

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273. “It was all out there – the mystery, the beauty; beyond her ability to see now, but there just the same. It was simply a matter of timing and perspective, what one saw.”

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274. “He had the kind of smile that inhabited every part of his face-his eyes, his cheeks; there was even a dimple. I wear my heart on my sleeve, that smile said, and no woman could be unmoved by such transparency.”

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275. “Everyone up here had two stories: the life before and the life now. If you wanted to pray to a weirdo god or live in a school bus or marry a goose, no one in Alaska was going to say crap to you.”

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276. “She had this terrible, irrational fear that if she let go of him she would never touch him again and the thought of that was paralyzing.”

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277. “He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.”

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278. “She tucked her chin, squared her shoulders, and set a new goal for herself.”

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279. “What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.”

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280. “Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.”

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281. “It’s funny how things slip away, pieces of us, even.”

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282. “Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.” “I’m just supposed to watch her make a mistake?” “Sometimes, yes. And then you stand by to pick up the pieces.”

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283. “He leans close and kisses each of my cheeks, whispering, “I loved her all of my life,” as he draws back.”

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284. “Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.”

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285. “It was one of those moments – an instant of grace in a crazy, sometimes impossibly dangerous world – that changed a man’s life.”

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286. “You must stay strong.” “By believing in God.” “Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I’m afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous.”

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287. “We can’t live other people’s lives for them. Even if we love them.”

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288. “You’ll make it through, Jo. You’re the strongest person I’ve ever met.”

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289. “Now she knew there were a hundred ways to be lost and even more ways to be found.”

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290. “Her tears were slow in forming; it was as if each one were made of blood and too thick to pass through her tear ducts. Memories came at her like a kaleidoscope:.”

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291. “You hang on,” her mother said. “Until your hands are bleeding, and still you do not let go.”

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292. “Parenting issues were always a popular topic – especially mother–daughter problems.”

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

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294. “Love matters. Maybe its the only thing that does.”

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295. “I stand up feeling my new role. I am a motherless daughter now, a sisterless woman. There is no one left of the family I was born into; there is only the family I have made. My mother is in all of us, though especially in me, and the dreams of my father to, so it is my job to be all of us now.”

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296. “To be a great photographer you had to see first and feel later.”

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297. “She wanted to pray, but her faith felt far away, the remnant of another woman’s life.”

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298. “Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.”

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299. “At one point, she’d wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she’d remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn’t: cleanup.”

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300. “Children become adults who become children again.”

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