Kristin Hannah Quotes

People you don't love can't hurt you.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.

People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

I'd rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.

You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.