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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.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Hurt #Men #Years
“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.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Passion #Self #Careers
“Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Perspective #Armor #Way
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Daughter #Mother #Single Mom
“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Best Friend #Mother #Heart
“From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Firsts #Mets #First Time
“She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Numbness #Shells #Littles
“I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Hurt #People #Forgiving
“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.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Family #Mothers Day #Mom
“Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Ghost #Standing Alone #Said
“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.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Grief #Islands #Sea
“He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Fear #Men #Combination
“Iâ€™m an insomniac lately. Itâ€™s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Crumbling #Crackers #Boxes
“We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Mother #Hurt #Jobs
“She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Letting Go #Mother #Children
“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”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Hot #Sunlight #Used
“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.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Beautiful #Rain #Night
“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.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Daughter #Mother #Writing
“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...”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Sadness #Joy #Littles
“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.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Strong #Fall #Hands
“She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Hurt #Children #Scabs
“It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Legs #Drink
“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Forever #Too Much #Friends Forever
“Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Animal #Loner #Going Out
“Books + friendship = book club”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Book #Clubs #Book Club
“I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Heart #Years #Broken
“What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Fire #Light #Watches
“At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Wall #Men #Breakfast
“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate”
-- Kristin Hannah

#Falling In Love #Fall #Love You

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