01UndatedAs 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 / quote ↗
02UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedLove. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
04UndatedTo 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedAnd 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.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
07UndatedSome 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?Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
08UndatedI 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.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
11UndatedVietnam...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.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
12UndatedShe 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.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
13UndatedWe are all changed by this war, Soph. Daniel is your brother now that Rachel is ... gone. Truly your brother. And this baby, he or she is innocent of ... his or her creation.''It's hard to forget,' she said quietly. 'And I'll never forgive.''But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.'Sophie sighed. 'I suppose,' she said, sounding too adult for a girl of heKristin Hannah / quote ↗
14UndatedIt is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
15UndatedShe 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedHey, Meg," she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I'm applying for grad scKristin Hannah / quote ↗
19UndatedAlice 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 / quote ↗
20Undated...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed.Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
21UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
22UndatedA daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
23UndatedVianne 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.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
24Undatedshe 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 / quote ↗
