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Winter Garden QUOTES

Winter Garden QUOTES

1 " It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

2 " 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

3 " They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

4 " To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again? "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

5 " To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

6 " And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly... "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

7 " Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

8 " Nina stared at the woman who had raised her and saw the truth at last.
Her mother was a lioness. A warrior. A woman who’d chosen a life of hell for herself because she wanted to give up and didn’t know how.
And with that small understanding came another, bigger one. Nina suddenly saw her own life in focus. All these years, she’d been traveling the world over, looking for her own truth in other woman’s lives.
But it was here all along, at home with the one woman she’s never even tried to understand. No wonder Nina had never felt finished, never wanted to publish her photographs of the woman. Her quest had always been leading up to this moment, this understanding. She’s been hiding behind the camera, looking through the glass, trying to find herself. But how could she? How could any woman know her own story until she knew her mother’s? "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

9 " Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

10 " I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship], "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

11 " I think maybe love can just...dissolve."
"No, it does not," her mother said.
"So how do--"
"You hang on," her mother said. "Until your hands are bleeding, and still you do not let go. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

12 " Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

13 " I would not love him again. Not if I had known how it would feel to live with a broken heart. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

14 " what shall we drink to?"
"How about family?" Stacy said, showing up just in time to pour a fourth shot. "To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost." and she clicked glasses with mom "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

15 " He has been in her heart for so long it is as if she knows him already, but she doesn't. She does not know what to say or how to say it, and suddenly she is afraid that there is a wrong way to move forward, a mistake that once made cannot be undone. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

16 " life—and love—can be gone any second. When you had it, you needed to hang on with all your strength and savor every second. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

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

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

18 " How could any woman know her own story until she knew her mother’s? "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

19 " Children become adults who become children again. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden

20 " The only real thing in this icy blue-and-black world is my daughter’s hand in mine. "

― Kristin Hannah , Winter Garden