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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
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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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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go girlfriends were forever.
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He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
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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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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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....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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She waited for you in a thousand different ways.
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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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Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.
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Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
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Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire.
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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
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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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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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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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Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like Be careful what you wish for, she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all
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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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I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.
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