Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 7 of 10

301. “A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can’t be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.”

— Kristin Hannah

302. “Alone is overrated,” he said simply.”

— Kristin Hannah

303. “If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” – LILY TOMLIN.”

— Kristin Hannah

304. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

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

— Kristin Hannah

306. “Once you’d learned how bad life could go, and how quickly, you tried to protect those who remained.”

— Kristin Hannah

307. “Isabelle had traded kisses with boys as if they were pennies to be left on park benches and lost in chair cushions – meaningless.”

— Kristin Hannah

308. “I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that’s real terror.”

— Kristin Hannah

309. “Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.”

— Kristin Hannah

310. “Lost is lost; it’s when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you.”

— Kristin Hannah

311. “Even more important than what she gave her garden was what it gave her. In it, she found a sense of calm.”

— Kristin Hannah

312. “Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.”

— Kristin Hannah

313. “Some things in life, though, couldn’t be gone in search of. They simply had to be waited for. Like the weather. You could look on the horizon and see a bank of black storm clouds. That didn’t guarantee rain tomorrow. It might just as easily dawn bright and clear. There was no damn way to tell. All you could do was keep moving and live your life.”

— Kristin Hannah

314. “I’d always believed that the truth of a person was easily spotted, a line drawn in dark ink on white paper. Now, I wonder. Maybe the truth of who we are lies hidden in all those shades of gray that everyone talks about.”

— Kristin Hannah

315. “Your’re successful beyond your wildest dreams and it still isn’t enough?”

— Kristin Hannah

316. “Depression has descended like a bell jar around me.”

— Kristin Hannah

317. “If ever I am inclined in the future to disbelieve in love, I will remember this moment.”

— Kristin Hannah

318. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

319. “You’d be surprised at what I can do.”

— Kristin Hannah

320. “She gave herself over to the sensations of the kiss, let it become the whole of her universe, and knew finally how it felt to be enough for someone.”

— Kristin Hannah

321. “In a breathtaking instant, Cora’s life crashed into focus, became small. There was just one thing that mattered; how could she not have known it from the beginning? Why had she spent so much time searching for who she was? She should have known. Always. From the very beginning. She was a mother. A mother.”

— Kristin Hannah

322. “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. No one cared if you had an old car on your deck, let alone a rusted fridge. Any Life that could be imagined could be lived up here.”

— Kristin Hannah

323. “Let him think she was as safe as one could be. A coward.”

— Kristin Hannah

324. “For most of her life she’d been able to box up bad memories or disappointments and store them deep in the back of her mind, in a place so dark they couldn’t be seen.”

— Kristin Hannah

325. “Don’t think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices.”

— Kristin Hannah

326. “Sometimes holding on was all you could do.”

— Kristin Hannah

327. “She found herself secretly mapping his face, memorizing every ridge and hollow and valley, as if she were an explorer and he her discovery.”

— Kristin Hannah

328. “She knew what nightmares could do to a person and how bad memories could change who you were.”

— Kristin Hannah

329. “Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon’s blade.”

— Kristin Hannah

330. “When I care about someone, I hang on with a desperation that borders on mental illness.”

— Kristin Hannah

331. “He also knew that love could freeze over, become a kind of thin ice all its own.”

— Kristin Hannah

332. “Lately he’d been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.”

— Kristin Hannah

333. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

334. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

335. “I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”

— Kristin Hannah

336. “A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren’t a lie or useless.”

— Kristin Hannah

337. “Life was impossibly fragile. If you were lucky enough to have a loving family, you had to hold onto them with infinite.”

— Kristin Hannah

338. “They’d talked about the past in their bits-and-pieces way. Never all at once, never one big end-up-crying-and-hugging moment, but a constant brushing up of the past, reexamining actions and decisions and beliefs, offering apologies, forgiveness. All of it had brought them closer to who they were, who they’d always been. Mother and daughter. Their essential, immutable bond – fragile enough to snap at a harsh word a long time ago, durable enough to survive death itself. “Mommy! There you are,” MJ.”

— Kristin Hannah

339. “It felt both profoundly magical and beautifully ordinary.”

— Kristin Hannah

340. “She knew about death, about the grief that ripped you apart and left you broken forever.”

— Kristin Hannah

341. “Beauty was just another way to discount her, to not see her.”

— Kristin Hannah

342. “Examination was the only solace. Instead of looking away from heartache, you needed to crawl inside of it, wear it like a warm coat on a cold day. There was peace in loss, beauty in death, freedom in regret.”

— Kristin Hannah

343. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

344. “In real life, she saw, it wasn’t like that. It was sadness opening up inside of you, changing how you saw the world.”

— Kristin Hannah

345. “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.”

— Kristin Hannah

346. “Leni felt distance spreading between them. That was how change came, she supposed: in the quiet of things unspoken and truths unacknowledged.”

— Kristin Hannah

347. “Two kinds of flocks come up to Alaska, Cora. People running to something and people running away from something. The second kind-you want to keep your eye out for them.”

— Kristin Hannah

348. “She’d crawled into her grief and cocooned it around her, unable to care about anyone or anything –.”

— Kristin Hannah

349. “I see the incredulity in my son’s eyes and it makes me smile. Our children see us so imperfectly.”

— Kristin Hannah

350. “She wanted to daydream, pretend that her world was upright instead of fallen on its side;.”

— Kristin Hannah