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He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Combination
Afraid
Fear
Good
Men

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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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A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
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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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Sometimes holding on was all you could do.
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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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Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
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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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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
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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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As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.
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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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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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This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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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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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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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
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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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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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