Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “My dearest Tully – I am so sorry. I know how afraid you are of being alone, of being left behind, but God has His plan for all of us. I would have stayed with you longer if I could have. Your grandfather and I will always be watching out for you from Heaven.”

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252. “Books had always been her solace; novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her own imagination.”

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

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

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

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256. “Another promise made by a man who’d kept too few.”

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

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258. “Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too.”

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259. “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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260. “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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261. “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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262. “Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth.”

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263. “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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264. “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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265. “Alone is overrated,” he said simply.”

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

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268. “She was touching his body with her tongue, and he felt it there, but somehow what she was doing went deeper. As if that gentle, moist tongue of hers were flicking his heart as well.”

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269. “Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart.”

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270. “A Russian dacha, or summerhouse, in Western Washington State. Even the orchard’s name was absurd. Belye Nochi.”

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271. “Sometime – she didn’t know when – she closed her eyes and reached out, placing a hand in the hollow of his stomach, feeling it rise and fall with his breathing. It was like resting her hand on the ocean in summer, when the tide was coming in.”

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272. “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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273. “From the picnic basket, she withdrew a crusty baguette, a wedge of rich, double-cream cheese, two apples, some slices of paper-thin Bayonne ham, and a bottle of Bollinger ’36.”

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274. “She could hardly imagine a thing as terrible as losing your mother. The very thought of it made Leni sick to her stomach. 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. Leni.”

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

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276. “Love. Family. Laughter. That’s what I remember when it’s all said and done. For so much of my life I thought I didn’t do enough or want enough. I guess I can be forgiven for my stupidity. I was young. I want my children to know how proud I am of them, and how proud I am of me. We were everything we needed – you and Daddy.”

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277. “If she wasn’t careful, she’d slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.”

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278. “She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice. Taking.”

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279. “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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280. “Hope was an elevator right now, broken from its cables.”

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281. “Vianne knew Rachel wasn’t asking how to hide in the barn; she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper “good-bye.” “I can’t leave her.”

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282. “Dad wanted a new beginning. Needed it. And Mama needed him to be happy.”

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283. “Does one follow a leader blindly?”

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

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

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

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288. “Think about the women who fought for the vote. They had to be scared, too, but they marched for change, even if it meant going to jail. And now we can vote. Sometimes the end is worth any sacrifice.”

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289. “They’d had no choice but to fall into the cycle the growers wanted them in: living on credit, building up debt, and never making enough, even with relief, to break out.”

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

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291. “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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292. “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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293. “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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294. “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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295. “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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296. “She was angry at him – she knew that, felt it – but as he came toward her, that anger dried up and blew away like dust beneath the longing that mattered so much more.”

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

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299. “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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300. “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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