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This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

Kristin Hannah

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Forever
Friends
Problem
Much

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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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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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I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
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No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.
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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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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
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Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see how special you are, he isn’t good enough for you.
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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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He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
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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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I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.
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