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It was almost as if there was a tear in the fabric I was made of, and he was the only color thread that would match to stitch it back up.
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romance
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You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.
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When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler. What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this:
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It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.
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I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
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They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.
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Dreaming is the closest the average human gets to the paranormal plane; it's the time when the mind lets down its guard and the walls get thin enough for there to be glimpses to the other side. That's why, after sleeping, so many people report a visit from someone who's passed.
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You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.
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People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.
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If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made.
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Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.
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Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump."
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plain-truth
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by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.
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life
past
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You get through it, you just never get over it
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the universe wants from us is two things: don't do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy.
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Your sister," I say evenly, "is incredibly sick. I'm sorry if that interferes with your dentist's appointment or your plan to go buy a pair of cleats. But those don't rate quite as high in the grand scheme of things right now. I'd think that since you're ten, you might be able to grow up enough to realize that the whole world doesn't always revolve around you." Jesse looks out the window, where Kate straddles the arm of an oak tree, coac..
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You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese."
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directions
friendship
humor
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Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place. When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
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prochoice
prolife
religion
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Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.
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If there was a religion of Annaism, and I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accid..
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I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
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shame
violins
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Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?
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I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
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What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he reall..
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human
life
thoughts
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Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?
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Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
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you never forget your first fall.
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What does it feel like?" he asked. "What does what feel like?" Peter thought for a moment. "Being at the top." Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. "Like if you take one wrong step," she said, "you're going to fall."
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She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. "You haven't seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I'm not the great love of his life, the one he'll never forget." "You are to me," I say."
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oliver
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she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surplus jacket and combat bots, she did this without apology. It was a great irony that the very fact of a relationship with her would diminish her appeal, that the moment she came to love me back and depend on me as much as I depended on her, she would no longer be a truly independent spirit. No way in hell was I going to be the one to take that..
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As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?
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When you're hurting deeply, you go inward.
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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.
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I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.
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devil
faith
god
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But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.
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reader
words
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Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give-and then realize that it still isn't what they need?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Peter took a shuddering breath. He wondered what his fish had thought, expecting the cool blue of the sea, only to wind up swimming in shit.
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If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
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Jodi Picoult |
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My grandmother lived a remarkable life. She watched her nation fall to pieces; and even when she became collateral damage, she believed in the power of the human spirit. She gave when she had nothing; she fought when she could barely stand; she clung to tomorrow when she couldn't find footing on the rock ledge of yesterday. She was a chameleon, slipping into the personae of a privileged young girl, a frightened teen, a dreamy novelist, a pr..
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no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
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but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.
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