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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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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
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Garden Grove
California
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She waited for you in a thousand different ways.
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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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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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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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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
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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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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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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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Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go girlfriends were forever.
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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
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I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.
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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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It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.
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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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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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He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
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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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She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
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