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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Little
Writing
Comes
Littles

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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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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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I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I knew it all now I know better. Somewhere, I know my mom is smiling.
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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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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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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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This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
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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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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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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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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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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
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Sometimes holding on was all you could do.
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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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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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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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The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.
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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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....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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