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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
Life
Mother
Part
Everything

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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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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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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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but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.
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Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
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Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
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The measure of a society is its compassion.
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I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
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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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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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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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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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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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And no one drank just one shot of tequila.
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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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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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I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.
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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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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
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The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.
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