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A Memoir

by Christina Haag (Author) (edit contributors)

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The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag • New York Times bestseller

When Christina Haag was growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth... read more

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  • “But from those years and from that place, I had the sense that brokenness meant approach and that beauty was something mixed of shadow and decay. That it was made in part from the pieces of the past and the things that are left behind.”
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  • was the remarkable equipoise of humility and confidence that is grace.
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  • “Sin, in the Greek, means missing the mark. An archery term. That’s all it is. That which has kept you from God.”
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  • I did not know then that there are those you love no matter how much they hurt you, no matter how many years have passed since you felt them in the morning. I did not know how long it took to get over such a love, and that even when you did, when you loved again, you would always carry a sliver of it in your stitched-together heart. I did not know that you could love them in death, and that if one day they returned to you in a dream or half sleep, you might hold up your hand as she had done, because life and time had changed you.
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  • “God loves you just as you are. Pray from where you are.”
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  • No matter how many times you fall in love, it always comes at you sideways. It always catches you by surprise.
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  • This is a woman who does not take life for granted. This is a woman who knows her luck and lives it, who grasps that beauty is transformative and transient.
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  • The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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  • “He was an ordinary boy in extraordinary circumstances,” she said, her voice unwavering. “And he lived his life with grace.”
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"Seeing a place for the first time gives it a kind of mystery that never leaves."

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  1. Christina Haag (Author)

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Page Count: 304

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