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Kristin Hannah Quotes | Quotes said by Kristin Hannah

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #1

    . . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy


  • Kristin Hannah Quote #2

    ...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed.
    Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]. Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #3

    A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #4

    A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #5

    A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #6

    Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #7

    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.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #8

    And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly...

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #9

    Angie: How do I pitch these ideas to her?
    Mira: From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #10

    As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #11

    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.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #12

    but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #13

    Caro: Bite me.
    Ruby: I gave that up in kindergarten.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #14

    Do you love him?
    How would I know?
    You'd know.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #15

    Elizabeth: Maybe he'll surprise you.
    Meghann: Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #16

    Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t their child who had died. She heard I’m so sorry until she despised those words as she had never despised anything in her life, and she discovered an anger in her soul that was new.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #17

    Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie.
    Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?
    Sure. Can I have some money?

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #18

    Girls like you can't understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #19

    Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #20

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

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #21

    He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #22

    He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #23

    Hey, Meg, she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I'm applying for grad school.

    Meghann screamed into the phone. Oh, my God! I'm so proud of you. I'm hanging up now; I have to draft a letter that makes my best friend sound like da Vinci in a bra and panties.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #24

    I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #25

    I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.
    All along the Seine, street lamps come on, apartment windows turn golden.
    It's seven, Julien says, and I realize that he has been keeping time all along, waiting. He is so American. No sitting idle, forgetting oneself, not for this young man of mine.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #26

    I look at people who aren’t us and I hate them.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #27

    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 Quote #28

    If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #29

    If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
    ? Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • Kristin Hannah Quote #30

    It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

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