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Summer Island
Kristin Hannah
Top 10 Best Quotes
“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. ”
“She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking away the air you needed to breathe, creating a barrier between you and the world. The hell of it was that she'd been able to see all that she was missing, but when she'd reached out, all she'd touched was cold, hard glass.”
“Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.”
“The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.”
“The measure of a society is its compassion.”
“A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.”
“She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as carefully as the secret of fire.”
“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is in the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is in my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is in the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep in her bones. This I know now.”
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