Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannahis an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
strong fall hands
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.
sadness joy littles
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...
girlfriend guy forever
Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.
promise impression
Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
television fifteen minutes
Fifteen 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?
matter action intention
It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.
letting-go mother children
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.
matter love-and-family ends
When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.
way patterns cement
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.
heart cutting blood
He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red.
cutting people forever
....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.
shields easier idealist
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
kissing night creating
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.
rubies kindergarten bite-me
Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.