Kristin Hannah Quotes

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

Sometimes people are vulnerable. And that's fine.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world, thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

We're all so damned fragile.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.