Kristin Hannah Quotes

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.

I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.

We were so unprepared that when my husband took off to get groceries, and we'd adopted a 3-year-old, he came back with baby formula, a steak and a teething ring. We had no idea what we were doing. But you learn. There's no way to fully prepare. Just eyes wide open - jump.

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

There's a verse in the Bible: 'Those who are barren have more children than those who give birth.' There are young people all over the world who come to me for advice and love. I have all the children I can handle.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?