669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

Love is what remains when everything else is gone. This is what I should have told my children when we left Texas. What I will tell them tonight. Not that they will understand yet. How could they? I am forty years old, and I only just learned this fundamental truth myself. Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation.

And when we let the media choose our heroes for us, we are lost already.

How can I possibly fold all that longing into something as small as words?

Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

She cried at last, for all the times she’d had been with her father and all the times she hadn’t, and for all the times she never would be. When the tears had worn themselves out and left her dry, she got unsteadily to her feet.

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” – T. S. Eliot, from “East Coker.

Isabelle had always been impetuous, a force of nature, really, a girl who liked to break rules. Countless nuns and teachers had learned that she could be neither controlled nor contained.

The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – MARCEL PROUST.

If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother. He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.