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Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.
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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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Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.
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I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.
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Honestly, I believe that the mother-daughter relationship is magical, complex, potentially dangerous, profoundly powerful, and deeply transformative. To put it simply, all of us have this relationship, and in a very real way, "none of us comes out alive." We are all formed first as daughters and then tested as mothers. There's nothing like motherhood to make us reassess how we were as daughters.
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Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
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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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We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.
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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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It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.
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This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
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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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And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.
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He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.
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Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.
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When you get... to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.
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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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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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It's a promise ring, he said solemnly. The lady at the store said it's what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday.
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What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?
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In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.
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It isn't about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It's about being together. Love is a choice you make.
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When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.
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The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.
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Kristin Hannah
Born:
September 25, 1960
(age 63)
Bio:
Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.
Known for:
The Nightingale (2015)
Firefly Lane (2008)
Night Road (2011)
Winter Garden (2009)
Home Front (2012)
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