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She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

Kristin Hannah

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Different
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Waited
Thousand
Ways

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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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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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He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
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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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...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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Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go girlfriends were forever.
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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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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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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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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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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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Do you love him? How would I know? You'd know.
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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
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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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....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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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
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And no one drank just one shot of tequila.
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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
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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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