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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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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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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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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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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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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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Popularity means people think they know you.
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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]. Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.
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It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.
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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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Do you love him? How would I know? You'd know.
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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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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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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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I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.
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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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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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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks
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