Kristin Hannah Quotes

I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet.

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

I do want love. Genuine love.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.

People will still love and hurt and yearn.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

Pain is love.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

No matter what else, we have love. Always love.

I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander,” he whispered in her ear. “And you were worth every second of it.

When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.

I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

Love would never leave us alone

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.