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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
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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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Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
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The measure of a society is its compassion.
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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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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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She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
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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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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.
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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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The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.
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...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]. Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.
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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
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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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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.
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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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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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....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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This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
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