669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.” “I’m just supposed to watch her make a mistake?” “Sometimes, yes. And then you stand by to pick up the pieces.

In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.

Love wasn’t a great, burning brushfire that swept across your soul and charred you beyond recognition. It was being there, simply that.

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. Sometimes, settling down.

I want to imagine there will be peace when I am gone, that I will see all of the people I have loved and lost. At least that I will be forgiven. I.

Home is part of us. It’s in the scars we have on our knees and elbows, in the memories that surface when we sleep. I don’t think you can ever really leave.

Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that’s a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I’ll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire.

The father who went off to war was not the one who came home. She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other.

You see things and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were And say, ‘Why not?’” – George Bernard Shaw.