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121 " But when he looked at her—and she looked at him—they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to. "
― Kristin Hannah , The Nightingale
122 " In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are. "
123 " You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet. "
124 " It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love. "
125 " Man plans. God laughs. "
― Kristin Hannah , Night Road
126 " If you’re going through hell, keep going. "
127 " Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. "
― Kristin Hannah , The Great Alone
128 " She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. "
129 " We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do. "
― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden
130 " I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be. "
131 " How fragile life was, how fragile they were. Love.It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between. It didn’t matter that she was broken and ugly and sick. He loved her and she loved him, All her life she had waited -longed for - people to love her, but now she saw what she really mattered. She had known love, been blessed by it. "
132 " Courage is fear you ignore. "
― Kristin Hannah , The Four Winds
133 " I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway. "
134 " It wasn’t the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it. "
135 " 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. "
136 " A thing can be true and not the truth, "
137 " You know what they say about finding a man in Alaska—the odds are good, but the goods are odd. "
138 " Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you. "
― Kristin Hannah , Firefly Lane (Firefly Lane, #1)
139 " A girl was like a kite; without her mother's strong, steady hold on the string, she might just float away, be lost somewhere among the clouds. "
140 " In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost. "