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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Best
Heart
Mirror
Mirrors
Friend
Hold
Friends
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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 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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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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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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You look great, he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. I'm as big as a house. He laughed. I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.
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This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
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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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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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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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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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