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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Promise
Second
Didn
Much
Like
Impressions
Promises
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Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire.
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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
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It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.
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Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
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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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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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The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.
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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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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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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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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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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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Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go girlfriends were forever.
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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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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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That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.
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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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Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.
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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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