“Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“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.’”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing, the staying where you said you'd be and working to keep the love strong.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Rain Valley newcomers pretty much fell into two groups: people running away from something and people running away from everything.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“As she neared her destination, she took her glasses off. She hadn't come to the point where she trusted the world as seen through a lens.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“hidden from her. Still, the air is lighted and bright.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and jagged edges. It’s not about the falling in love. It’s about the landing,”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“One of the fundamental truths of psychiatry was that sometimes you had to leave a patient who needed you. She”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Girls like you can’t understand,” Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn’t know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime. The”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. —The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“No platitudes, Dr. Cerrasin? No ‘God doesn’t give you more than you can bear’ speech?” “Call me Max. Please.” He looked at her. “And sometimes God breaks your fucking back.” It”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“I don't know how romantic I am, but I only know one way to love...All the way. When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“What did she wish? She didn't know. When she thought about it, that was the problem with her life, now and always, she'd never known what to wish for until it was too late.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Lost is lost; it's when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Sometimes a mood changes on its own... Sometimes it needs a shove.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
“Yesterday I was worried about a lot of things. Today I know what matters.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from Magic Hour
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“I don't want to marry her, I just want to have a nice, civilized dinner with her."
"Then bounce on her," Seth finished.
"Christ. He gets that from you," Philip accused Cam.
"He came that way," Cam wrapped an arm around Seth's neck. "Didn't you, brat?"
The panic didn't come now, as it used to whenever Seth was touched or held. Instead he wriggled and grinned.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Inner Harbor
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
“You are hierarchical. That’s the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It’s a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all …” The rattling sounded again. “That was like ignoring cancer. I think your people did not realize what a dangerous thing they were doing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Dawn
“He winks at me, and the surge of butterflies in my stomach is so strong I think I may throw up right there. I need something to calm my nerves. The most obvious remedy is more alcohol. They don't call it liquid courage for nothing.”
― Hannah Harrington, quote from Speechless
“...In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world's in danger, evil's on the rise, but if you're really quick and take this ring and put it in that volcano over there everything will be fine.
"But in real life that guy never turns up. He's never there. He's busy handing out advice in the next universe over. In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't. There's no answers in the back of the book.”
― Lev Grossman, quote from The Magician's Land
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