Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 26 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah. I hope you enjoy reading them.
The Nightingale Quotes
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
Everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
Generally, Madame, the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
Why was it so easy for men in the world to do as they wanted and so difficult for women?
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
Magic, to be its best, must be unexpected. Don’t you agree?
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
You’re not alone, and you’re not the one in charge. 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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
If love is a disease, I suppose I’m infected.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
I know these modern seat belts are a good thing, but they make me feel claustrophobic. I belong to a generation that didn’t expect to be protected from every danger. I remember what it used to be like, back in the days when one was required to make smart choices. We knew the risks and took them anyway.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
This war has put us all where we do not want to be.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
This is the problem with you French. You fail to see the truth when it sits down beside you.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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?
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
He is such an American, this son of mine. He thinks one’s life can be distilled to a narrative that has a beginning and an end. He knows nothing about the kind of sacrifice that, once made, can never be either fully forgotten or fully borne.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
A girl’s love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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?
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
Love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
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.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah
A Frenchwoman must have her secrets. And I will … I’ll keep one secret.
from The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah