669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

She knew about death, about the grief that ripped you apart and left you broken forever.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” – LILY TOMLIN.

She was so tired of being strong.

Depression has descended like a bell jar around me.

For six hours, Isabelle sat at the table in the apartment on rue de Saint-Simon. They brought in others from the network and gave them tasks: to gather clothes for the pilots and stockpile supplies. They consulted maps and devised routes and began the long, uncertain process of setting up safe houses along the way. At some point, they began to see it as a reality instead of merely a bold and daring idea.

What a burden such a choice must be. For the first time, she saw her own childhood as an adult, from far away, with the wisdom this war had given her.

Life changes, whether you want it to or not.

She thought she had grieved for Matthew, cried all the tears she had, but now she saw the desert of grief that lay before her. It could go on and on. The human body was eighty percent water; that meant she was literally made of tears.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn’t count for much.