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“A Frenchwoman must have her secrets. And I will… I’ll keep one secret.” (The Nightingale Quotes)
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“A girl’s love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Asking yourself a question, that’s how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. —REMCO CAMPERT”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Don’t think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Generally, Madame, the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“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
The Nightingale
“I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“I belong to a generation that didn’t expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there’s a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“If love is a disease, I suppose I’m infected.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“If times were different, I’d make you chase me. I would have made you jump through hoops to get me naked. But we don’t have time, do we?”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“It is hard for a girl to lose her mother. I lost both parents though, didn’t I? One died, and the other turned his back on me. I can’t say which hurt more.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Magic, to be its best, must be unexpected. Don’t you agree?”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Millions of Jews were killed in this war, Madame. Millions. An entire generation is gone. We need to band together now, those few of us who are left; we need to rebuild.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“My eyes fail me often – in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“She realized that the landscape of a woman’s soul could change as quickly as a world at war.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“She wouldn’t have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“The days of stopping to talk to friends on the street were gone. Now it was dangerous enough to simply make eye contact; friendly conversation had gone the way of butter and coffee and pork.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“This is the problem with you French. You fail to see the truth when it sits down beside you.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“This war has put us all where we do not want to be.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“We are all fragile. It’s the thing we learn in war”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“What was the right thing for a mother to say to her nearly grown daughter about the ugliness in the world? How could she be honest?”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“Why was it so easy for men in the world to do as they wanted and so difficult for women?”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
“You’re not alone, and you’re not the one in charge,” Mother said gently. “Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God and each other and ourselves in times as dark as these.”
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
