669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

Your’re successful beyond your wildest dreams and it still isn’t enough?

Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.

She had always been a woman with laserlike focus. When she started something, there was no halfway, no easy beginning. It was this trait that had broken her.

The stairs unfold from the ceiling like a gentleman extending his hand.

Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst?

Alaska was full of fringe-ists. People who believed in weirdo things and prayed to exclusionary Gods and filled their basements with equal measures of guns and Bibles. If you wanted to live in a place where no one told you what to do and didn’t care if you parked a trailer in your yard or had a fridge on your porch, Alaska was the state for you.

Love shows us who we want to be. War shows us who we are.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.

It’s like his back is broken, Mama had said, and you don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you. He needs me. Us.