669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

Your mama told me that if a girl grows up smelling sea air, she can never really breathe inland.

Before this trip and all that she’d learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

I am stronger than I use to be.” As I say the words, I realize the truth of them. I am stronger now. Strong enough to reach for this dream... and strong enough to handle disappointment.

You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet.

Does one follow a leader blindly?

Love is such a slippery thing.

I can’t help smiling at that. He is such an American, this son of mine. He thinks one’s life can be distilled to a narrative that has a beginning and an end. He knows nothing about the kind of sacrifice that, once made, can never be either fully forgotten or fully borne. And how could he? I have protected him from all of that.

The street was a living, breathing dragon of humanity, inching forward, wheezing dirt, honking horns; people yelling for help, babies crying, and the smell of sweat heavy in the air.

She sat there a long time, talking to her daddy as if he were sitting right beside her.