Kristin Hannah
Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.Collection: Passion
Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.Collection: Perspective
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.Collection: Stories
The 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.Collection: Pain
It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.Collection: Matter
Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Sadness
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.Collection: Family
There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.Collection: Strong
Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.Collection: Choices
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.Collection: Shields
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.Collection: Grief
If 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.Collection: Love
That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.Collection: Best Friend
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.Collection: Kissing
What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.Collection: Mother
A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.Collection: Mom
From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.Collection: Firsts
Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.Collection: Crush
Honestly, I believe that the mother-daughter relationship is magical, complex, potentially dangerous, profoundly powerful, and deeply transformative. To put it simply, all of us have this relationship, and in a very real way, "none of us comes out alive." We are all formed first as daughters and then tested as mothers. There's nothing like motherhood to make us reassess how we were as daughters.Collection: Mother
I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.Collection: Heart
He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.Collection: Fear
I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.Collection: Hurt
I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.Collection: Loving You
That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.Collection: Opportunity
Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.Collection: Comfort
Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.Collection: Daughter
Sometimes holding on was all you could do.Collection: Holding On
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.Collection: Patterns
If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.Collection: Flow
She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.Collection: Letting Go
Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire.Collection: Book
You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?Collection: Giving Up
The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.Collection: Book
Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.Collection: Choices
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.Collection: Writing
I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.Collection: Girl
Popularity means people think they know you.Collection: Mean
When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.Collection: Mom
but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.Collection: Strong
Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.Collection: Rubies
You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.Collection: Lying
The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.Collection: Mother
Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.Collection: Hurt
She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeksCollection: Hot
She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.Collection: Hurt
Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see how special you are, he isn’t good enough for you.Collection: Falling In Love
I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].Collection: Crumbling
The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.Collection: Crazy
Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know.Collection: Knows