669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

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.

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.

Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

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.

She had to believe there was grit in her, even if it had never been tested or revealed.

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

Loreda didn't want the kind of love that trapped. She wanted to be told she could fly high, be anything and go anywhere.

She couldn't let herself be seduced by the idea of credit. Nothing in this life was free, for migrants most of all.

But you did it. You broke away. D'ya ever think that life must be bigger than what we see here, Els? "I do", she said.I mean ... somewhere people our age are drinking bathtub gin and dancing to jazz music. Women are smoking in public." He sighed. "And here we are.