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I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
People
Anyway
Forgiving
Loving
Hurt
Even

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The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.
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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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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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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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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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I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
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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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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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Do you love him? How would I know? You'd know.
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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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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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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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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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Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
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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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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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Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.
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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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It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.
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