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by Kristin Hannah

There are some things you learn best in calm, some in storm.

But now she saw what she had never dared to see before: this love of hers was one-sided. She was the one who took care; he was the one who took.

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. —MARCEL PROUST

There was so much training before one goes to war, and so little for one’s return.

“It’s not intentions that matter. It’s actions. My drill instructor used to say that all the time. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to. I