Marija

“The sight of them helping others when they themselves had lost everything made her proud.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Elsa felt a deeply rooted shame in her daughter’s rejection. In her hurt, she did what she’d always done: she disappeared. But all the while, she waited, prayed, that both her husband and her daughter would someday see how much she loved them and they would love her in return. Until then, she dared not push too hard or demand too much.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Heartache had been a part of her life so long it had become as familiar as the color of her hair or the slight curve in her spine. Sometimes it was the lens through which she viewed her world and sometimes it was the blindfold she wore so she didn't see. But it was always there. (p117)”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds