Quotes from The Great Alone

“It’s scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“Love and fear. The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“life—and the law—is hard on women. Sometimes doing the right thing is no help at all.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“like all fairy tales, theirs was filled with thickets and dark places and broken dreams, and runaway girls.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“She saw how love could be dangerous and beyond control. Ravenous.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“All this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“You know what they say about finding a man in Alaska—the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“A thing can be true and not the truth,”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“You have a child, so you know. You are my heart, baby girl. You are everything I did right. And I want you to know I would do it all again, every wonderful terrible second of it. I would do years and years of it again for one minute with you.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“Leni saw suddenly how hope could break you, how it was a shiny lure for the unwary. What happened to you if you hoped too hard for the best and got the worst?”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“I’m so lucky to have you, Leni,” Mama said, trying to organize her cards with one hand.

“We’re a team,” Leni said. “Peas in a pod.”

“Two of a kind.”

Words they said all the time to each other; words that felt a little hollow now. Maybe even sad.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“A girl was like a kite; without her mother's strong, steady hold on the string, she might just float away, be lost somewhere among the clouds.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“I think you stand by the people you love.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“Like all motherless girls, Leni would become an emotional explorer, trying to uncover the lost part of her, the mother who carried and nurtured and loved her. Leni would become both mother and child; to her, mama would still grow and age. She would never be gone, not as long as Leni remembered her.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“She knew the difference between fact and fiction, but she couldn’t abandon her love stories.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“They were trapped, by environment and finances, but mostly by the sick, twisted love that bound her parents together.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“We've lived weird lives," she said.
"Maybe everyone does," he said, sitting down beside her, and then lying down, pulling her into his arms.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“In the silence, Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“Alone is overrated," he said simply.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“She knew what nightmares could do to a person and how bad memories could change who you were.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“How will I stop loving him, Mama? Will I .... forget ?
Mama sighed.
Ah. That. Love doesn't fade or die, baby girl. People tell you it does, but it doesn't. If you love him now, you'll love him in ten years and in forty. Differently, maybe , a faded version, but he's part of you now. And you are part of him.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“Leni got to her feet, stared at him. I didn't mean to do that. The same words she'd heard spoken by her dad.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“Alaska brings out the best and the worst in a man. Maybe if you'd stayed Outside you never would have become who you are now. I know about 'Nam, and it breaks my heart what you boys went through. But you can't handle the dark, can you? It's nothing to be ashamed of. Most folks can't. Accept it and do what's best for your family.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“All at once, it seemed, the leaves of cottonwood trees around the cabin turned golden and whispered to themselves, then curled into black flutes and floated to the ground in crispy, lacy heaps.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“smell of vomit and mold and decay. His lungs and nostrils ache. He can’t breathe without gasping.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

“You know what I love most about you, Leni Allbright?"
"What?"
"Everything.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from The Great Alone

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