Kristin Hannah Quotes - Page 4

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• Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

  Kristin Hannah

  Choices, Waiting, Sitting

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• 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 cheeks

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  Hot, Sunlight, Used

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.166, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Lying, Thinking, Careers

  Kristin Hannah (2009). “The Things We Do for Love: A Novel”, p.382, Ballantine Books

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• You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

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  Giving Up, Powerful, What If

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.144, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

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  Book, Hallmark

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• I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

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  Girl, Pacific Northwest, Pacific

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• The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

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  Mother, Home, Race

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

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  Hurt, Real, Feelings

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.314, Macmillan

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• I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

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  Writing, Littles, Ocd

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• Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

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  Hurt, Sometimes, It Hurts

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

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  Knows

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.176, Macmillan

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• Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

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  Promise, Impression

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.685, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Daughter, Mother, Writing

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Gun, Glasses

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.343, Ballantine Books

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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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  Hurt, Real, Two

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.385, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Heart, Cutting, Blood

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.157, Ballantine Books

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• Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

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  Moving, Liam, Standing Still

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.

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  Beautiful, Rain, Night

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

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  Comfort, Needs, Weight

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• 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.

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  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Kristin Hannah (2011). “Night Road”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

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  Holding On, Sometimes

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front: A Novel”, p.201, Macmillan

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• It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

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  Patterns, Way, Hardened

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.279, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

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  Crumbling, Crackers, Boxes

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• 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.

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  Flow, Slides, Lost

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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