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04cdc85
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
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past
life
symbols
looking-back
path
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Jodi Picoult |
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68b2000
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I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see."
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Jodi Picoult |
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ae751fa
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Leave it to a man to mess things up
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Jodi Picoult |
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
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relationships
family
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Jodi Picoult |
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43f41b6
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Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.
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rational
leave
right
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Jodi Picoult |
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a67f3db
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You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him
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Jodi Picoult |
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9d0d4d7
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It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that there no black or white. There are gradations of gray.
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Jodi Picoult |
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694edb4
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What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?"
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Jodi Picoult |
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e7d4986
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there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.
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Jodi Picoult |
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8d6513f
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If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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3423462
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Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.
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cluelessness
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Jodi Picoult |
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d70ae53
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I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back."
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Jodi Picoult |
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e2e9955
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Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.
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marriage
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Jodi Picoult |
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a428f24
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I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
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Jodi Picoult |
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2513bfc
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A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.
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Jodi Picoult |
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48e56bc
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If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
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writing
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Jodi Picoult |
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0e649ef
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Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.
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Jodi Picoult |
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994b2bf
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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.
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Jodi Picoult |
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2ff956d
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Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do
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Jodi Picoult |
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There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.
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Jodi Picoult |
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3d8ada1
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simply-quotes Follow I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
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love
long-distance-love
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Jodi Picoult |
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6932cda
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I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code...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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3c7399a
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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parenting
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Jodi Picoult |
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maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix-- not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. Like falling in love or finding god, if it ha...ppens to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else - and language only takes you so far.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I believe in Hell...but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once."
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Jodi Picoult |
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56e46b2
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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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life
truth
ordinary
extraordinary
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Jodi Picoult |
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159be95
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A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.
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Jodi Picoult |
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c33347e
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We Pisces, we're a special breed.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single tas..
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore
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Jodi Picoult |
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3da30a8
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Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough."
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Jodi Picoult |
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you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?
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Jodi Picoult |
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As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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7189479
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Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million? Lacy would be the keeper of those, because it was the only way for that part of Peter to stay alive. For every recollection of him that involved a bullet or a scream, she would have a hundred others: of a little boy splashing in a pond, or riding a bicycle for the first time, or waving from the top of a jungle gym. Of a kiss good night, or..
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Jodi Picoult |
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390fe7e
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In a lot of ways, having a teenager isn't all that different from having a newborn. You learn to read the reactions, because they're incapable of saying exactly what it is that's causing pain.
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Jodi Picoult |
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a38cf6c
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It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.
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Jodi Picoult |