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And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.
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love-story
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Jodi Picoult |
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The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.
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Jodi Picoult |
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However, no child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to," Josef says. "If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you become that person."
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Jodi Picoult |
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Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to everyone else who's ever read it. The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are certain things I do not talk about.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe."
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Jodi Picoult |
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ac3e0d5
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She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.
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beauty
charm
interesting-quotes
woman
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Jodi Picoult |
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6fd2659
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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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Jodi Picoult |
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Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you are pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your lifet rying to figure out how to keep her close enough for for comfort.
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Jodi Picoult |
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After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
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love
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Jodi Picoult |
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Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.
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lost
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Jodi Picoult |
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bd56993
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My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.
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story
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Jodi Picoult |
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413931f
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There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you do not get vacation time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime.
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Jodi Picoult |
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b028526
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There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do."
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Jodi Picoult |
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She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.
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love
pain
truth
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Jodi Picoult |
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c5bb37d
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In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
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mother
past
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Jodi Picoult |
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605f197
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There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.
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Jodi Picoult |
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bda5db6
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Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.
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embarrassment
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Jodi Picoult |
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He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.
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loss
sorrow
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Jodi Picoult |
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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
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loss
love
rape
relationships
survivor
trauma
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Jodi Picoult |
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8d15246
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Bleeding heart, he'd called her. Well. He should know. He'd been the first to rip it to pieces.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You ask your readers if they can account for every minute of their lives, every thought in their heads, and be proud of it. You ask them if they've never jaywalked.... never gone thirty-one miles per hour in a thirty-mile zone... if they've never sped up when they saw that yellow light. And when you find that single, sorry person who hasn't taken a misstep, that one person with the right to judge me, you tell him he's just as human as I am...
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Jodi Picoult |
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e2d133e
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It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.
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do
find
know
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Jodi Picoult |
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cb681d7
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It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So it can breath, she said. I was just breathing. I closed my eyes, anticipating each cut, feeling that wash of relief when it was done.
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Jodi Picoult |
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And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.
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Jodi Picoult |
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What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. "Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we're out of purgatory for the weekend." "Maybe later," I murmur, still distracted by the day's previous events. "So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested." "Huh?" I ..
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conversation
delilah-mcphee
humor
jules
paying-attention
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Jodi Picoult |
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But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.
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winning
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes, there's this expression on his face, as if he cannot quite believe he got so lucky. I'm not sure what he's seeing when he looks at me, but I want to be that girl.
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Jodi Picoult |
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May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?"
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life
love
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Jodi Picoult |
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854ec98
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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?
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Jodi Picoult |
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I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts."
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.
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Jodi Picoult |