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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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Mother
Home
Life
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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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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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Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.
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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
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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.
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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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It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.
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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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That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.
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She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each other down, and yet, here they were after everything, together. She needed him now, needed him to remind her that she was live, that she wasn't alone, that she hadn't lost everything.
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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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Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.
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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.
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Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.
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Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
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Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
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Girls like you can't understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.
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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
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