Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.
Kristin HannahIt was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.
Kristin HannahNina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
Kristin HannahShe still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.
Kristin Hannah