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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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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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And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.
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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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Popularity means people think they know you.
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We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.
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The measure of a society is its compassion.
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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
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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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She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
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It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.
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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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Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
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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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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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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 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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