Home Again Quotes

“Love meant always being a little afraid.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“But it had gotten so boring, all that crying and wanting and needing. This year she'd realized that she'd never be like her mom, and the realization had freed her. She stopped trying to get good grades and make good friends, and do everything well. She had flourished in her rebellion, reveled in it.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Please don't humiliate me by killing yourself before we can save your life.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“He'd always had a joke for Francis in the confessional, a 'sin' that could be counted on to cause a young priest to grin behind the safety of the wooden shield. Bless me, Father, for I put tuna in the chicken salad.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourselg. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Home is part of us. It’s in the scars we have on our knees and elbows, in the memories that surface when we sleep. I don’t think you can ever really leave.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Love is a gift from God—what we do with it is up to us.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“. . .perhaps that's what life is, getting it wrong and going on, and still believing, always believing.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Don’t you dare say that to me, not this time. Nobody’s strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That’s all it is, Angel. Being afraid, being afraid in the marrow of your bones, and going on.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“being a doctor was a snap compared to being a single parent.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“what it felt like to curl up in bed against the same body every night for thirty years, to wake to the same loving face. He wanted to ask if love was a safe harbor or a stormy sea.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“There are always time in your life when you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Take it from me, Father. Life is over quickly, and you only regret what you didn’t do.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“His mouth fit hers perfectly, just as it had so many years ago. It started out soft and gentle, that first kiss after so many lost and lonely years. She clung to him, kissing him with everything in her, as if she could draw that essential spark of him into her very soul, as if she could have some piece of him to take away from this magical ride. The”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“There are always times in life when you don’t fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That’s what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself—even when you’re most afraid.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Madelaine: I guess it's up to you to carve the turkey.

Angel: Come on, bro, show me how to carve up this bird.

Francis: Start at the breast, Angel. God knows, you should know how to do that.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Quit pouting, girl. All a Milquetoast ever gets is wet.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“singing along with the radio. It was blasting a song by the Butthole Surfers.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“remembered”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Madelaine performed a few quick tests on him before easing out of the room to give the couple their privacy. In the hallway she stopped the head transplant nurse and quietly gave her an update, then grabbed her coat from her office and raced from the building.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Home”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“I’ve been afraid since the moment they laid her in my arms. Every time she goes to school or to a friend’s house or out on a date, I’m afraid. I’m afraid of what the world will do to my beautiful baby girl, afraid of what I will do to her. It never goes away, ever. You just live with it and love her and be there for her.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“Welcome to parenting. It’s not a job, it’s an adventure.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“are always times in life when you don’t fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That’s what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself—even when you’re most afraid.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again

“I’m afraid of what the world will do to my beautiful baby girl, afraid of what I will do to her. It never goes away, ever. You just live with it and love her and be there for her.”
― Kristin Hannah, Home Again