Kristin Hannah Quotes

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

You can't be ashamed of the work you've done. You make a decision, and then you have to live with the consequences.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

I've made mistakes and made them bigger because of the way I have reacted to them.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

We can never go back.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

I don’t regret any of the decisions I’ve made in my life. Because with every choice I’ve made, I’ve learned something new.

The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

There ain't no future in the past.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.