Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Don’t think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices.”

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

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353. “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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354. “In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.”

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355. “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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356. “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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357. “If ever I am inclined in the future to disbelieve in love, I will remember this moment.”

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358. “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.”

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

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360. “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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361. “Although she hadn’t seen her parents for years, it turned out that a parent’s disapproval was a powerful, lingering voice that shaped and defined one’s self-image.”

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

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363. “She ought to have recognized love’s scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.”

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

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

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366. “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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367. “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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368. “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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369. “Sometimes holding on was all you could do.”

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370. “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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371. “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. – The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams.”

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372. “People left, and if you loved too deeply, too fiercely, their swift and sudden absence could chill you to the soul.”

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373. “They were at war. Time was the one luxury no one had anymore. Tomorrow felt as ephemeral as a kiss in the dark. She.”

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

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375. “He taught her something new about friendship: it picked right back up where you’d left off, as if you hadn’t been apart at all.”

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376. “She whispered in his ear. “Tell my sister I asked about her. We parted badly.” He smiled. “I am constantly arguing with my brother, even in war. In the end, we’re brothers.”

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377. “The children’s lives would never be the same after today. Their opinions of everything would change, but especially their opinions of themselves, of the durability of love and the truth of their family. They would know forever that their father hadn’t loved their mother – or them – enough to stay with them through hard times.”

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378. “In her hurt, she did what she’d always done: she disappeared. But all the while, she waited, prayed, that both her husband and her daughter would someday see how much she loved them and they would love her in return.”

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379. “It’s not intentions that matter. It’s actions. My drill instructor used to say that all the time. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to. I.”

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380. “And the books! She’d never seen so many. They whispered to her of unexplored worlds and unmet friends and she realized that she wasn’t alone in this new world. Her friends were here, spine out, waiting for her as they always had.”

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381. “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.”

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382. “Popularity means people think they know you.”

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383. “A wrecked marriage scares everyone. It’s like a rock tossed into a still blue pond; the ripples go on and on.”

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384. “Hey, Daddy,” she whispered. It was a split second before she realized that she’d expected an answer. But, of course, there wasn’t one. His heart – the one that had loved her so well – had finally given up.”

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

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386. “I think you stand by the people you love.”

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387. “For a magnificent moment, the world fell away and she was somewhere else, before now, or long from now, and she wasn’t hungry or tired or scared or angry. She simply was. She closed her eyes and felt at peace for the first time in years. Safe.”

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

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389. “It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.”

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390. “They were so... larger than life, these Yanks, with their ready smiles and booming voices. And their gratitude... She’d lost track of the times an American had hugged her so tightly she’d come off her feet.”

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391. “She leaned back against the sliding door and wondered at the vistas she wasn’t seeing. 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. Like with Mom. Perhaps everything had been there to be seen all along and Meredith had the wrong perspective, or not enough light.”

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392. “It’s not forgetting that we need Vianne, it’s remembering.”

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393. “Rain Valley newcomers pretty much fell into two groups: people running away from something and people running away from everything.”

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394. “The stairs unfold from the ceiling like a gentleman extending his hand.”

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395. “Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.”

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396. “They had been friends in the way that only girls could be – they wore each other’s clothes and slept at each other’s houses and told each other every little secret. They promised to always stay friends.”

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397. “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.”

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398. “That spring, rain fell in great sweeping gusts that rattled the rooftops. Water found its way into the smallest cracks and undermined the sturdiest foundations. Chunks of land that had been steady for generations fell like slag heaps on the roads below, taking houses and cars and swimming pools down with them.”

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399. “I know I won’t be able to stand on the edge of intimacy. Sooner or later, I will have to dive into those cold, deep waters, and there is no end to the ripples my entrance will make. I.”

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400. “Dreams. They were such precious commodities, and she’d given so many of hers away without a fight. Never again.”

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