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There was such art in the ordinary, it could leave you in tears.
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I feel like I've been standing underneath an open window, just as a baby gets tossed out. I grab the baby, right, because who wouldn't? But then another baby gets tossed out, so I pass the baby to someone else, and I make the catch. This keeps happening. And before you know it there are a whole bunch of people who are getting really good at passing along babies, just like I'm good at catching them, but no one ever asks who the fuck is throw..
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Jodi Picoult |
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No matter who else is mourning, you're in your own little cell. Even when people try to comfort you, you're aware that now there is a barrier between you and them, made of the horrible thing that happened, that keeps you isolated.
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What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other
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Once, Lacy had been present at the birth of an infant that was missing half its heart. The family had known their child would not live; they chose to carry through with the pregnancy, in the hope that they could have a few brief moments on this earth with her before she was gone for good. Lacy had stood in a corner of the room as the parents held their daughter. She didn't study their faces; she just couldn't. Instead, she focused on the me..
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Jodi Picoult |
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Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup
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Jodi Picoult |
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A lifetime of hurt in one act of vengeance.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Not others. What Jesus challenges us to do is to let go of the wrong done to you personally, not the wrong done to someone else. But most Christians incorrectly assume that this means that being a goo..
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forgiveness
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never ask if he's right- or left-handed. After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?
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Jodi Picoult |
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For every person you make happy, there's another one you disappoint.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.
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Jodi Picoult |
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if you don't get sick, you won't get well.
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When I was younger, my brother told me that he had the power to shrink me to the size of an ant. In fact, he said, he used to have another sister, but he shrank her down and stepped on her. He also told me that when you became a grown-up, you were admitted into a private party that was full of monsters and horror movie characters. There was Chucky, drinking a cup of coffee. And the mummy on the cover of the Hardy Boys book that used to frea..
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Jodi Picoult |
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How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?
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Jodi Picoult |
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That," she says, "was never here before."
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Jodi Picoult |
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The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
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humour
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Jodi Picoult |
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There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.
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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.
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jodi-picoult
love
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But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours. That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.
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friends
home
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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...
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Jodi Picoult |
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Even though the injury has faded, I still see it the way it was right after the accident: raw and red, a jagged lightning bold splitting the symmetry of my face. In this, I suppose I'm like a girl with an eating disorder, who weighs ninety-eight pounds but sees a fat person staring back at her from the mirror. It isn't even a scar to me, really. It's a map of where my life went wrong.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.
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Jodi Picoult |
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But what if--" I realize that I don't want him to disappear. I may not fully believe he's real; I may not understand why I can hear him speaking to me--but I sort of like it. I like knowing that of all the people in the world, I'm the only one listening to what he has to say. It makes me feel like we've been destined for each other."
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Jodi Picoult |
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A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.
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Jodi Picoult |
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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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Jodi Picoult |
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These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.
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Jodi Picoult |
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How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.
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Jodi Picoult |
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At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.
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Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?
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Jodi Picoult |
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But here's the truth: no matter how much you might wish for it, princes don't come around every day, and happy endings don't grow on trees. Take it from me: the sooner you grow up, the less you'll be disappointed.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God."
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I'm sorry. I love you, but it's an enormous conflict of interest." Her head snaps up, "You love me?" "What?" MY face is suddenly on fire. "I never said that." "You did. I heard it." "I said I'd love to." "No," Sage says, a grin splitting her face. "You didn't." Did I? I'm so tired I don't know what the hell is coming out of my mouth. Which probably means that I don't have the faculties to cover up what I really feel for Sage Singer, with an..
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Jodi Picoult |
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In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.
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Jodi Picoult |
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My whole life, this is how I've defined the paranormal: can't understand it, can't explain it, can't deny it.
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