Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “It’s funny how things slip away, pieces of us, even.”

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302. “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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303. “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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304. “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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305. “Depression has descended like a bell jar around me.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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314. “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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315. “Children become adults who become children again.”

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316. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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329. “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.”

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330. “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.”

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331. “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.”

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332. “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.”

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

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334. “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.”

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335. “It would always be a part of her, a scar on her soul, but like all scars, it faded in time from a bright and burning red to a slim, silvery line that could only sometimes be seen.”

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

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

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

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

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340. “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.”

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341. “Maybe time didn’t heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A.”

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

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

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344. “Should that be enough for her? Was she wrong to want passion? To dream of something – someone – more? She’d always imagined love to be turbulent and volatile, an emotion that would sweep her up and break her to pieces and reshape her into someone she couldn’t otherwise have become.”

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

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346. “Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. Sometimes, settling down.”

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347. “Mama had called Leni the great love of her life and Leni thought maybe that was always true for parents and their children.”

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348. “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.”

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

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350. “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.”

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