# The Great Alone ![[Assets/796495ddd36980f8204f9b89a7b23df0_MD5.jpg]] ## Metadata - Author: [[Kristin Hannah ]] - Full Title: The Great Alone - Category: #books ## Highlights - “I love you,” Mama said, and she was crying now, too, and suddenly Leni understood the reality of her world, the truth that Alaska, in all its beautiful harshness, had revealed. They were trapped, by environment and finances, but mostly by the sick, twisted love that bound her parents together. ([Location 2607](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06Y5WRS2C&location=2607)) - Mama could never leave Dad, and Leni would never leave Mama. And Dad could never let them go. In this toxic knot that was their family, there was no escape for any of them. ([Location 2613](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06Y5WRS2C&location=2613)) - Some choices you didn’t recover from; she was old enough to know that. ([Location 5773](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06Y5WRS2C&location=5773)) - Someone said to me once that Alaska didn’t create character; it revealed it. ([Location 7151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B06Y5WRS2C&location=7151))