Top 500 Kristin Hannah Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The stairs unfold from the ceiling like a gentleman extending his hand.”

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

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354. “The best mirror is an old friend. – GEORGE HERBERT.”

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

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

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357. “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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358. “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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359. “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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360. “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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361. “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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362. “And there it is: the core of everything. We’re sisters. We know each other intimately. Our pasts, our secrets, our fears. It is a precious gift that we tried to throw away but can’t really let go of.”

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363. “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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364. “Popularity means people think they know you.”

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365. “Love shows us who we want to be. War shows us who we are.”

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366. “He saw his whole life in her eyes, all his dreams and hopes and fears.”

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367. “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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368. “Sometimes we have to forgive the people we love, even if we’re mad as hell. That’s just how it is.”

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369. “In sleep, I dream about the Comfort Lodge and Daniel.”

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370. “Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.”

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371. “Ever since you were a girl, you’ve been running for what you wanted... Now you’re lost, but you’re still running full speed... How will you ever figure out what you want when everything is a blur?”

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372. “Prayers and faith will not be enough, I’m afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it.” Mother.”

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373. “Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.”

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374. “In the past days, she’d come to understand the importance of upheaval. The tallest mountains were created by violence and chaos; like them, a woman’s independence was born of fire.”

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375. “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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376. “You can be anything you want. But you have to take a risk sometimes. Reach out.”

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377. “Up here, in the vastness of Alaska, the words sounded infinitesimal and small. A fist shaken at the gods.”

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378. “Fear was a mansion, one room after another, connected by endless hallways.”

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379. “Yelling was like a bomb in the corner: you saw it, watched the fuse burn, and you knew when it would explode and you needed to run for cover. Not speaking was a killer somewhere in your house with a gun when you were sleeping.”

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380. “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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381. “She could leave them. She could break free and go her own way. It would be frightening, but it couldn’t be worse than staying, watching this toxic dance of theirs, letting their world become her world until there was nothing left of her at all, until she was as small as a comma.”

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382. “Elizabeth laughed. “No way. You’ll have to talk to Dad about this yourself, but I’ll tell you this, honey, it’s dangerous to quit something because you think you’re not good enough. That can be an ugly pattern that repeats itself throughout your life. Believe me, I know.”

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

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384. “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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385. “Leni was pretty sure that, to her, childhood would always smell like sea air and cigarette smoke and her mother’s rose-scented perfume.”

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

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387. “And when we let the media choose our heroes for us, we are lost already.”

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388. “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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389. “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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390. “Bitterness would do you good. All that smiling and pretending of yours would give me hives.”

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

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392. “Like all motherless girls, Leni would become an emotional explorer, trying to uncover the lost part of her, the mother who carried and nurtured and loved her. Leni would become both mother and child; to her, mama would still grow and age. She would never be gone, not as long as Leni remembered her.”

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393. “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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394. “Home is part of us. It’s in the scars we have on our knees and elbows, in the memories that surface when we sleep. I don’t think you can ever really leave.”

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395. “The truth was that her photographs were an extension of who she was, what she thought, how she felt. It took perfect concentration to capture the exquisite pain of personal tragedy on film. You had to be there one hundred percent, in the moment – but it had to be their moment.”

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396. “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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397. “It’s not weak, you know. To feel things deeply, to want things. To need.”

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398. “Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they’re like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them.”

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399. “I love you. I’m proud of you. I’ve never seen anyone so brave. Why was I so mean for so long? You gave me wings, Mom. Did you know that? I feel you here. Will I always?”

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400. “There was a parking ticket on her windshield. She rolled down her window and reached out, yanking the paper from beneath the rusted windshield wiper. She wadded it into a ball and tossed it out the window. To her mind, ticketing this rattrap and expecting to get paid was like leaving a bill on the pillow at a homeless shelter.”

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