669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

If you’re going through hell, keep going. – WINSTON CHURCHILL.

Hope. A shiny thing, a lure for the unwary. She knew how seductive it could be, and how dangerous.

My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often – in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

It’s too bad we don’t live life backward. I think it was Kierkegaard who said that.

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.

If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride.

For the first time in his life, he was going to be a goddamn hero.

I have spent a lifetime running from it, trying to forget, but now I see what a waste all that was. Antoine was Julien’s father in every way that mattered. It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.

How do you keep hold of a dream like that?” “With both hands.