Kristin Hannah Quotes

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Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

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I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

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I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

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We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

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She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

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It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

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This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

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She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

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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.

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

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Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

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When you get... to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

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

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Oh, Mia. You haven't even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can't see how special you are, he isn't good enough for you.

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It's a promise ring, he said solemnly. The lady at the store said it's what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.

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What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

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In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

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It isn't about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It's about being together. Love is a choice you make.

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When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.

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The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.

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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?

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Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

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I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],

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One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

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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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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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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.'

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The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.

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She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

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Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

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