Kristin Hannah

Quotes by Kristin Hannah

• Angie: How do I pitch these ideas to her?Mira: From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

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• The measure of a society is its compassion.

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• A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

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• ...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.

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• 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.'

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• I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

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• Hey, Meg, she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I'm applying for grad sc

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• Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

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• 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.

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• It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

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• We 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 he

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• 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.

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• I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.

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• 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.

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• Do you love him?How would I know?You'd know.

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• He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

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• 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.

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