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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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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Mother
Part
Everything
Life

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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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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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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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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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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's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.
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Do you love him? How would I know? You'd know.
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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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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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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 is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
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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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....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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She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks
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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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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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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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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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To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.
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