669 Quotes by Kristin Hannah

There was a parking ticket on her windshield. She rolled down her window and reached out, yanking the paper from beneath the rusted windshield wiper. She wadded it into a ball and tossed it out the window. To her mind, ticketing this rattrap and expecting to get paid was like leaving a bill on the pillow at a homeless shelter.

But you knew, or should know, that it was a wild thing you lived with, that a collar and leash and a bowl of food might tame the actions of the beast, but couldn’t change its essential nature.

What will we be without him?” Meredith whispered, clinging to her. “Less,” was all Nina could think of to say.

Meg is planning your wedding? Honey, that’s like asking the pope to plan a bar mitzvah.

Nightingales mean loss, don’t they? Love that leaves or doesn’t last or never existed in the first place.

That was the thing about her dad: he might be moody and sharp-tempered, even a little scary sometimes, but that was just because he felt things like love and loss and disappointment so keenly.

I close my eyes and in the darkness that smells of mildew and bygone lives, my mind casts back, a line thrown across years and continents.

All her life she had waited – longed for – people to love her, but now she saw what really mattered. She had known love, been blessed by it.

In love we see who we want to be; in war we see who we are.