“No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“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”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“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.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“There's nothing wrong with being scared...It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we're afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Sometimes you have to do everything right and follow the rules. You have to wait until all your ducks are in a row before you make a move. And other times... like now... you have to say 'what the hell' and go for it.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“For years, she'd mistaken habit and affection for true love. She had assumed that the love she gave her husband was a reflection of the love he felt for her, and now, because of her blindness, she was alone.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“A dad... he teaches responsibility and accountability, but a mom... ah, a mom teaches her child to dream, to reach for the stars and to believe in fairy tales.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Love matters. Maybe its the only thing that does.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“They had been friends in the way that only girls could be - they wore each other's clothes and slept at each other's houses and told each other every little secret. They promised to always stay friends.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Dreams. They were such precious commodities, and she'd given so many of hers away without a fight. Never again.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Another promise made by a man who'd kept too few.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Stop thinking about what you've lost, and think about what you have left.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“There's nothing wrong with being scared. It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we are afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I'll do it.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“When you get older, you'll understand. There's a certain comfort in the familiar.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“You're stronger than you think you are. You can get through this, whatever happens, you can get through it. Just don't forget...the rain. It's an angel's tears. And every glass you've ever seen is half full. Don't let yourself forget that. I know what it does to a person... forgetting that hope is out there.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Unless he reached out now, in the days that mattered, he would learn that some roads could not be refound and that true love took time and effort … that a life lived in the glare of summer sunlight never produced a rainbow.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. —ALBERT CAMUS”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“... reminded her how precious time was, how fleeting. How sometimes life snipped the edges off your good intentions and left you with no second chance to say what really mattered.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“I love you...It feels like I've loved you forever. I never knew it could be this way...that love could catch you when you fell.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“There are only two people in the world who don’t respect you … as far as I know, anyway.” She looked at Natalie, shaking her head slightly, as if she could stop her daughter’s words. “Just two,” Natalie said. A single tear streaked down her cheek and she impatiently brushed it away. “Dad … and you.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Surely this beautiful creature couldn’t be the child who’d once licked the metal ski-chair pole at Mammoth Mountain … or the girl who’d climbed into her parents’ bed after a nightmare when she was only a year away from being a teenager. Seventeen years had passed in the blink of an eye. It was too fast. Not long enough …”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
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“People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.”
― Zadie Smith, quote from The Autograph Man
“The killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from The Good Guy
“I am not him, Kia. Your dead husband... was an asshole. And now he's gone. You're in bed with me... I'm here because I wanna be here... and when we're done talkin' about that asshole and he's gone again, I'm gonna get you wet and hot for me and I'm gonna be in you because I wanna be in you...There are not many men who would not kill [to be here] and that man is now me and and he's gonna be me for a good long time.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Heaven and Hell
“You've made yourself more available than a whore in a Las Vegas casino.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Sons of Fortune
“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. —Nietzsche”
― Robert Kirkman, quote from Rise of the Governor
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