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The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
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Lines
Race
Mother
Home
Life

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That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.
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We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.
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It’s a promise ring,” he said solemnly. “The lady at the store said it’s what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.
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To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?
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She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
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Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.
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The measure of a society is its compassion.
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but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.
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I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I knew it all now I know better. Somewhere, I know my mom is smiling.
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....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.
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Do you love him? How would I know? You'd know.
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Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate
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And no one drank just one shot of tequila.
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I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.
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What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.
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He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
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It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.
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I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].
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She waited for you in a thousand different ways.
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A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.
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