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History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.
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truth
historical
society
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It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty."
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Jodi Picoult |
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But there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you.
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romance
love
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Jodi Picoult |
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51ec0f9
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The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.
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society
forgiveness
sin
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Jodi Picoult |
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8499d5a
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Do you think there will ever be a time when racism doesn't exist?" "No, because that means white people would have to buy into being equal. Who'd choose to dismantle the system that makes them special?"
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Jodi Picoult |
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554b4e1
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At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?" --
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jacob
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Jodi Picoult |
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Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.
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fear
wisdom
jodi-picoult
lone-wolf
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71e38eb
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Edward: "Wait--you were trying to on me?" Susan: "Damn straight." Edward: "The thing is, I'm not. Straight, I mean."
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straight
gay
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Jodi Picoult |
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db2d570
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Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
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god
truth
on-board
impossible
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Jodi Picoult |
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321ad7d
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The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.
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violence
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Jodi Picoult |
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d4191ca
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In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.
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brian-fitzgerald
kate-fitzgerald
sister
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Jodi Picoult |
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5ace587
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Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it."
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Jodi Picoult |
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3b7b8e7
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Does fate ever play by the rules?
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Jodi Picoult |
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06dc288
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the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.
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salem-falls
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Jodi Picoult |
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62e0ca8
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it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoul..
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Jodi Picoult |
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764a6ac
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It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.
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Jodi Picoult |
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What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.
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Jodi Picoult |
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b92d905
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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
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story
dark
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Jodi Picoult |
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7ff3e4f
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one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man. One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean something else, no innuendo. Wolves fight for two reasons: family and territory. Humans are driven by ego; wolves have no room for it and will literally nip it out of you. For a wolf, the world is about understanding, knowledge, respect - attributes t..
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nature
incompatibility
civilization
wolf
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Jodi Picoult |
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573f979
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The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.
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light
love
self
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Jodi Picoult |
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88a02d3
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Regret hung from the hem of everyone's lives, a rip cord reminder that what you want is not always what you get. Look at himself, outliving Aimee. Or Az, trying to find his daughter, only to have her wind up dead. Look at Shelby, with a child who was dying by degrees. Ethan, born into a body nobody deserves. At some point or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thin humans had in common. Taken this way, Ros..
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Jodi Picoult |
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I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you. "
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Jodi Picoult |
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8ea2ddd
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But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much
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Jodi Picoult |
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f5d28ab
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Go fuck yourself Judge." "Motion denied." answers the judge dryly."
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Jodi Picoult |
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I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.
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grey-areas
zoos
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Jodi Picoult |
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7379b08
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I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.
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Jodi Picoult |
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She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts...
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Jodi Picoult |
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92f7c1a
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It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.
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jodi-picoult
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Jodi Picoult |
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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a hou..
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Jodi Picoult |
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Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
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life
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Jodi Picoult |
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e40f619
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One of the most amazing things about elephants mourning in the wild is their ability to grieve hard, but then truly, unequivocally, let go. Humans can't seem to do that. I've always thought it's because of religion. We expect to see our loved ones again in the next life, whatever that might be. Elephants don't have that hope, only the memories of life. Maybe that's why it is easier for them to move on.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.
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Jodi Picoult |
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6645878
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Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him."
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god
sue
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Jodi Picoult |
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b5924a8
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i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.
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Jodi Picoult |
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My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?
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Jodi Picoult |