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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.
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live
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There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.
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Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?
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Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.
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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.
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darkness
jesse-fitzgerald
relative
hole
father
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The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog.
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A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
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No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.
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I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. I'd thought. Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back.
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if there isn't a them, there can't be an us.
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social
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It was a catch-22: If you didn't put the trauma behind you, you couldn't move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.
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sexual-assault
victim
survivor
trauma
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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
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reality
happiness
inspirational
quotient
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when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
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want
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Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.
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The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.
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It takes two people to make a friendship work
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You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.
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My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.
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men
honest
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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.
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character
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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
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family
death
sadness
jodi-picoult
my-sister-s-keeper
leukemia
cancer
kate
jesse
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If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
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Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.
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Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing..
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motherhood
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Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
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I'm weird. Everyone says so.
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She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.
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It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
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people
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house-rules
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You can boil your life down to a single suitcase, if you desperately have to. Ask yourself what you really need, and it won't be what you imagine - you will easily toss aside unfinished work, and bills, and your daily calendar to make room for the pair of flannel pajamas you wear when it rains; and the stone your child gave you that is shaped like a heart; and the battered paperback you revisit every April because it was what you were readi..
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It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.
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mothers
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I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be."
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I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you've survived, or the minutes you've been stuck there. Probably, though, life is mo..
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I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.
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I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it's not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.
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No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.
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A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.
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Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.
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By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.
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In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.
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Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
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You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.
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When I was little, I used to pour salt on slugs. I liked watching them dissolve before my eyes. Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt. It would be one thing to be a loser if it meant that no one paid attention to you, but in school, it means you're actively sought out. You're the slug, and they're holding all the salt. And they haven't developed a conscience. There's a word we learned in social studie..
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And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it
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i don't know. i don't care. all i know is when you pay for something that's supposed to give you a cup of coffee, you deserve to get your fucking cup of coffee.
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When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere
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