669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

You’ll make it through, Jo. You’re the strongest person I’ve ever met.

I went in search of my mother’s life, and found my own.

It was a gray, not-quite-rainy day, the kind where the sky was so low it seemed to bump you in the forehead when you dared to venture outside.

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.

Inside was a library unlike any Leni had ever seen. Row upon row of wooden desks, decorated with green banker’s lamps, were positioned beneath an arched ceiling. Gothic chandeliers hung above the desks. And the books! She’d never seen so many. They whispered to her of unexplored worlds and unmet friends and she realized that she wasn’t alone in this new world. Her friends were here, spine out, waiting for her as they always had.

Alaska isn’t about who you were when you headed this way. It’s about who you become.

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.

But she wasn’t an I. She was a we.

With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.