kristin hannah Quotes

Magic to be its best must be unexpected".

- Kristin Hannah

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow," he says after a minute. Then, "Wow," again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?

- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often—in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.

- Kristin Hannah

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Magic to be its best must be unexpected.

- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.All along the Seine, street lamps come on, apartment windows turn golden."It's seven," Julien says, and I realize that he has been keeping time all along, waiting. He is so American. No sitting idle, forgetting oneself, not for this young man of mine.

- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother. He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted; to be loved and admired. Now i think perhaps I'd like to be known.

- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall

- Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.