03UndatedAngie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
04UndatedMy skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often—in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
05UndatedShe remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking away the air you needed to breathe, creating a barrier between you and the world. The hell of it was that she'd been able to see all that she was missing, but when she'd reached out, all she'd touched was cold, hard glass.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
06UndatedLiam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
08UndatedEven as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t their child who had died. She heard I’m so sorry until she despised those words as she had never despised anything in her life, and she discovered an anger in her soul that was new.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
09UndatedThe falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man's heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then...nothing.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
10UndatedThis time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
11Undatedit’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fallKristin Hannah / quote ↗
13UndatedThe trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremities.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
14UndatedShe hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on toKristin Hannah / quote ↗
15UndatedIt had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
16UndatedThe measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
17UndatedThose are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they're like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
18UndatedMemories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
19UndatedIt 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 / quote ↗
20UndatedFifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie."Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?""Sure. Can I have some money?Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
21UndatedHe'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
22UndatedWas Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
24UndatedIt isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.Kristin Hannah / quote ↗
