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1 " As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her. "
― Kristin Hannah , Summer Island
2 " If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. "
― Kristin Hannah , The Nightingale
3 " Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between. "
4 " To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again. "
― Kristin Hannah , Firefly Lane (Firefly Lane, #1)
5 " And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil. "
6 " Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really? "
7 " I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults. "
8 " He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination. "
― Kristin Hannah , Home Front
9 " Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow. "
10 " She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other. "
11 " It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing. "
12 " She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. "
― Kristin Hannah
13 " I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive. "
14 " Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free. "
― Kristin Hannah , If You Believe
15 " Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’ "
― Kristin Hannah , Magic Hour
16 " I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out. "
― Kristin Hannah , Fly Away (Firefly Lane, #2)
17 " A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. "
18 " Vianne knelt down beside Sarah, she felt for a pulse and found none. The silence turned sour, thick; all Vianne could think about was the sound of this child's laughter and how empty the world would be without it. "
19 " she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all. "
― Kristin Hannah , The Glass Case
20 " A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE. "
