669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

You can be anything you want. But you have to take a risk sometimes. Reach out.

Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God – and each other and ourselves – in times as dark as these.

They just had to muddle along and live in the world presented to them, confused a lot of the time because nothing made sense, but certain of their subterranean place on the food chain.

Let him think she was as safe as one could be. A coward.

He started to cry, and she pulled him into her arms. It took perhaps the greatest courage of her life to let go of him.

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? Was it better not to hope at all, to prepare? Wasn’t that what her father’s lesson always was? Prepare for the worst.

Vianne knew Rachel wasn’t asking how to hide in the barn; she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper “good-bye.” “I can’t leave her.

The falling apart of a man’s life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet... He closed his eyes... And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man’s heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then... nothing.