“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
“He's not just a star, he's the whole fucking sky to me.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Real
“We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from If Tomorrow Comes
“Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me.”
― Sylvia Day, quote from Entwined with You
“Everything about [chance] scares the bejesus out of so many people; it's the this thing they try to avoid at all costs. Don't travel to the Middle East these days - there's a chance something could happen. Don't get involved with that new fellow on Creamery Street - I hear a lot of mud was scraped off his floor after the divorce. Don't have your baby at home - there's a a chance something could go wrong. Don't don't don't... Well, you can't live your life like that! You can't spend your entire life avoiding chance. It's out there, it's inescapable, it's a part of the soul of the world. There are no sure things in this universe, and it's absolutely ridiculous to try and live like there are!”
― Chris Bohjalian, quote from Midwives
“You think you know the answer, you’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there’s any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.”
― Gillian Flynn, quote from Dark Places
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