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Relationships take work. Hours and days and years of getting close to that person. That's real love, real intimacy.

—Karen Kingsbury in A Time to Embrace

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About Karen Kingsbury

Karen Kingsbury (born June 8, 1963) is an American Christian novelist born in Fairfax, Virginia.

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The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

—Karen Kingsbury in Even Now

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Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers, if that makes any sense.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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