Quotes by Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah

….both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you’d bleed forever.

Cutting

Forever

People

…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.

Cutting

Hurt

Pain

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

Daughter

Mom

Mother

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can’t be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

Caring

Falling In Love

Mother

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.’

Hurt

Real

Two

And 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.

Girl

Kissing

Women

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.

Joy

Littles

Sadness

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

Drank

Shots

Tequila

As 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.

Family

Mom

Mothers Day

At one point, she’d wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she’d remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn’t: cleanup.

Breakfast

Men

Wall

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Action

And Love

Animal

Armor

Balance

Beautiful

Believe

Best Friend

Bite Me

Black And White

Blood

Book

Book Club

Boxes

Breakfast

Broken

Careers

Caring

Cheer Up

Children

Choices

Clubs

Color

Combination

Comfort

Compassion

Country

Courses

Crackers

Crazy

Creating

Crumbling

Crush

Cutting

Daughter

Deep Love

Different

Doors

Drank

Dream

Drink

Easier

Ends

Eye

Fall

Falling In Love

Family

Fear

Feelings

Feels

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Quotes by Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah

….both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you’d bleed forever.

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

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can’t be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

And 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.

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.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

As 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.

At one point, she’d wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she’d remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn’t: cleanup.

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