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"They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride."

Past Balance Sometimes

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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."

Pain First Love Firsts

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"You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life."

Good Day Years Missing

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"The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives."

Book Hallmark

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"Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them."

Writing Thinking Play

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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."

Giving Up Important Glue

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"I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing."

Writing Littles Ocd

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"The measure of a society is its compassion."

Compassion

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"She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt."

Hurt Children Scabs

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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."

Mom Doors Weather

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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."

Strong Fall Hands

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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."

Mother Falling In Love Caring

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"Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free."

Hurt Sometimes It Hurts

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"Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult."

Comfort Needs Weight

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"Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten."

Rubies Kindergarten Bite Me

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"Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’"

Hurt Real Two

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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."

Lying Thinking Careers

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"Sometimes holding on was all you could do."

Holding On Sometimes

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"Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie." Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?" "Sure. Can I have some money?"

Television Fifteen Stairs

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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."

Falling In Love Believe Love You

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