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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Hallmark
Define
Relationships
Books
Lives
Women
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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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Sometimes holding on was all you could do.
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Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see how special you are, he isn’t good enough for you.
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Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go girlfriends were forever.
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Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.
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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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The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.
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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each other down, and yet, here they were after everything, together. She needed him now, needed him to remind her that she was live, that she wasn't alone, that she hadn't lost everything.
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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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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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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
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Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
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We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.
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