Kristin Hannah

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

“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.’”

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

“I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.”

“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.”

“Vianne knelt down beside Sarah, she felt for a pulse and found none. The silence turned sour, thick; all Vianne could think about was the sound of this child's laughter and how empty the world would be without it.”

“it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall”

“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.”

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

“she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.”

“We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.”

“We are all changed by this war, Soph. Daniel is your brother now that Rachel is ... gone. Truly your brother. And this baby, he or she is innocent of ... his or her creation.''It's hard to forget,' she said quietly. 'And I'll never forgive.''But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.'Sophie sighed. 'I suppose,' she said, sounding too adult for a girl of he”

“Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.”

“It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.”