Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“Trust, once lost, is hard to recover.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“Freedom was a ghost that haunted us all on the row, but most of all we were haunted by a past we could not go back and change. Loss and grief and a cold madness that defied words floated in the grime and filth that we were all coated in. Hell was real, and it had an address and a name.
Death Row, Holman Prison.
Where love and hope went to die.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“But sometimes you have to make family where you find family”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“He called her his farfalla and I wonder if he meant that she flits from flower to flower or meant something deeper, a caterpillar who grows beautifully patterned wings, like a woman who discovers her own power and chooses independence and flies into the sun”
― Rebecca Raisin, The Little Venice Bookshop

“Sometimes I wonder if I really know myself at all or if I’m just playing a part”
― Rebecca Raisin, The Little Venice Bookshop

“like I’ve just found home. And maybe I have. Maybe home finds you, and not the other way round”
― Rebecca Raisin, The Little Venice Bookshop

“Before, I felt like I had a piece missing, and now I see that … it was finding where I fit into the tapestry of the world myself”
― Rebecca Raisin, The Little Venice Bookshop

“Despite being a little worn, a little scarred. Aren’t we all? And it’s those dings and dents that make our own stories so great, so rich and varied: the tapestry of our own disordered messy live that got us here, to this very point”
― Rebecca Raisin, The Little Venice Bookshop

“Sometimes you don’t get to choose who your family is, they choose you”
― Rebecca Raisin, The Little Venice Bookshop

“It was like coming home after you’d been gone a long, long time. It held a million promises of summer and of what just might be.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“My whole life was measured in summers. Like I don’t really begin living until June”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“It felt like there might be secrets in the walls”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Moments, when lost, can’t be found again. They’re just gone”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn’t matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad’s”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I melted underneath him. In the right moment, for him, I’d have done anything he wanted.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“He had flipped a switch in me. A switch that changed me from a woman who saw making love as a tool into a woman who knew that making love was a need. I needed him. I needed to be seen. I came alive under his gaze.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I realized this was really happening, that this wasn’t just a fight we were having. That this was the fight that would end us.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“So, you know, put whatever label you want on it, just don’t change. That would be the real tragedy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Everyone I loved is dead now. There’s no one left to protect. No one left to lie for but me - Evelyn Hugo”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Sometimes things happen so quickly you aren’t sure when you even realized they were about to begin.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She was as much of a fix to me as any drug.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“That is how Celia and I forgave each other.
And how we knew we couldn’t live without each other.
Because now we both knew what we were willing to risk. Just to be together”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“This was our people. And here they were, revolting against the police, in the name of their right to be themselves.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo