I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

Kristin Hannah

Categorized in : Thinking Wanted Wanted To Be Loved

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line. by Kristin Hannah

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

race mother home

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.

obscure pain three

They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

balance sometimes past

And no one drank just one shot of tequila. by Kristin Hannah

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

tequila drank shots

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

slides flow lost

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

crackers boxes crumbling

She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

sunlight used hot

....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.

cutting forever people

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

hardened patterns way

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without b... by Kristin Hannah

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

broken heart years

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watc... by Kristin Hannah

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

light fire watches

Popularity means people think they know you. by Kristin Hannah

Popularity means people think they know you.

mean people thinking

And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

women kissing girl

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing. by Kristin Hannah

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

saying-nothing good-friend mean

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know. by Kristin Hannah

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

knows

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

what-if giving-up powerful

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much. by Kristin Hannah

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

too-much problem forever

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

courses falling-in-love love-you

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.

wall men breakfast

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we... by Kristin Hannah

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

one-thing regret i-can