669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

Lately he’d been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

She tucked her chin, squared her shoulders, and set a new goal for herself.

A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren’t a lie or useless.

I’m here, Mom,” Julien says quietly, taking my suitcase, lifting it easily over the obstruction. The sound of his voice reminds me that I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

Sometimes your heart got broken, but you just held on. That was all there was.

Isabelle had traded kisses with boys as if they were pennies to be left on park benches and lost in chair cushions – meaningless.

Alaska didn’t create character; it revealed it.

The waters of the past were as cold as she’d expected, even in the heat of this gorgeous summer morning.

This will be a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.