Kristin Hannah: Want

Kristin Hannah is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on want.
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“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 book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Love , Life , War , Learning

“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 book The Nightingale

Variant: He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
Source: The Nightingale

Love , Thinking

“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 book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

People , Understanding , Problem , Thinking

“But when he looked at her—and she looked at him—they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Kiss , Personality

“In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Love , War

“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.”

Kristin Hannah

Source: Angel Falls

Women , Men

“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 book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Fear , Drink , Loneliness