March will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me.

— Kristin Hannah

Memories are who we are, Tub. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

— Kristin Hannah

My 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

She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Fully 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 to

— Kristin Hannah

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.

— Kristin Hannah

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.

— Kristin Hannah

She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as carefully as the secret of fire.

— Kristin Hannah

She 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

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.

— Kristin Hannah

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

— Kristin Hannah