Kristin Hannah citáty

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„Všechno žije dál v mých vzpomínkách. Rány se zacelí. Láska přetrvá. My přežijeme.“

„V čase, který měli, si lásku dost neprojevovali a jejich čas vypršel…“

„V lásce poznáváme, jací bychom chtěli být, a ve válce pak poznáme, jací jsme.“

„Vždycky jsem si myslela, že právě to chci: aby mě moji blízcí milovali a obdivovali. Teď si říkám, že bych byla radši, kdyby mě znali.“

„Nejde o to zapomenout… Jde o to si vzpomenout.“

„Některé příběhy skrátka nekončí šťastně. Dokonce ani ty milostné. Možná hlavně ty milostné.“

„Láska ale musí být silnější než nenávist, jinak bychom se mohli rovnou rozloučit s jakoukoli budoucností.“

„Historky vyprávějí muži (…) Ženy žijí dál.“

“It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.”

“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.”

“I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.”

“Do you love him?"
How would I know?"
You'd know.”

“When you get… to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.”

“At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.”

“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”

“She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.”

“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”

“She was so tired of being strong.”

“A girl’s love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.”

“The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.”

“know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.”

“Popularity means people think they know you.”

“To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?”

“I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.”

“It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.”

“Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.”

“To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.”

“Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.”

“Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.”

“That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.”

“She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.”

“Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.”

“If there’s one thing I never do, it’s stop.”

“Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”

“It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.”

“I didn't know how… deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.”

“Mrs. Rondle gave us a pop quiz. So lame.”