"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."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"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."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"Man plans. God laughs."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"It doesn’t do any good to hide out in life, Mia. That’s how you used to handle things. You’re stronger now."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
Night Road Kristin Hannah quotes
"It’s a promise ring,” he said solemnly. “The lady at the store said it’s what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"The mementos of one's past had serious magic"
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"We are gonna be Harry and Hermione. Friends forever."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"Their whole relationship seemed to be made of air, filled with nothing."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"People think love is an act of faith,” her mother said. “Sometimes it’s an act of will."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"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."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"Like geese,” she whispered into the tiny, shell-pink ear, “their babies imprint on the mama in the first sighting and never forget."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"A girl without a mother was a prisoner of a different kind."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"Her daughter was here, with her, inside of her. She’d always been here, even when Jude was too broken to look for her. But it was time now to say, “Good-bye, baby … I love you.” For the first time in years, she believed that her daughter could hear her."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, THE INFERNO"
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"There was a beauty in chaos, a wildness that hinted at things gone wrong and mistakes overcome."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"Why was it that pebbles looked like boulders until they were in your rearview mirror?"
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"A watering system had kept everything alive; plants, like people, learned to grow in rocky terrain."
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)
"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind. —WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, ODE:"
— Kristin Hannah (Night Road)