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You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
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love
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
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solitude
loneliness
loner
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Jodi Picoult |
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Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
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heart
love
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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
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loss
sisters
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Jodi Picoult |
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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
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marriage
love
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
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self-awareness
self-love
self-confidence
self-esteem
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Jodi Picoult |
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You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was y..
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trust
loves-ones
self-reliance
mistakes
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Jodi Picoult |
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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
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love
julia-romano
unrequited
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Jodi Picoult |
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Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
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pain
love
inspirational
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Jodi Picoult |
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
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Jodi Picoult |
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A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
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happiness
inspirational
mathematical
advice
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Jodi Picoult |
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853e7ce
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Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?
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Jodi Picoult |
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The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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Jodi Picoult |
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You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?
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image
self-image
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Jodi Picoult |
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I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces."
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self-sacrifice
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Jodi Picoult |
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true love is felonious... You take someone's breath away... You rob them of the ability to utter a single word... You steal a heart.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
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Jodi Picoult |
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After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are two kinds of love...in the safe kind you look for someone who's exactly like you. It's what most folks settle for. But then there's the other kind of love. Everyone's born with a ragged edge, and some folks crave that piece that's a perfect fit. You'll search for it forever, if you have to. And if you're lucky enough to find it, it looks so
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Jodi Picoult |
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Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
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love
jodi-picoult
my-sister-s-keeper
broken-heart
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Jodi Picoult |
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In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
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heroism
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.
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trust
love
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Jodi Picoult |
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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silence
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Jodi Picoult |
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I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry.
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empathy
pity
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Jodi Picoult |