Amanda

“There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown. Elsa had survived it by being quiet, by not demanding or seeking attention, by accepting that she was loved, but unliked.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“It wasn’t the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Apparently you couldn’t stop loving some people, or needing their love, even when you knew better.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds