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The measure of a society is its compassion.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
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Compassion
Society

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Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.
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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.
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I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].
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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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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
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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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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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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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Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
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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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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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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
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I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
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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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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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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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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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He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
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