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What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.
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song
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Jodi Picoult |
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4651d3e
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After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.
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life
inspirational
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Jodi Picoult |
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f21b3b6
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as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.
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Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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5f781c4
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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They're just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on, when we see one, is only a trail of debris.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.
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world
wait
mess
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Jodi Picoult |
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0242adc
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every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.
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sex
third-world-countries
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Jodi Picoult |
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d56d1b5
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As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me." "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a subject."
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humor
grammar
school
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Jodi Picoult |
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e6bcc04
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We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.
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silence
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Jodi Picoult |
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b3f2230
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You have to understand - there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you fee..
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Jodi Picoult |
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6dc451b
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We are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts we can't become.
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Jodi Picoult |
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e70972b
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DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought." --
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life
deep
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Jodi Picoult |
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c879e95
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Did you ever think our misfortune is directly related to your good fortune? Maybe the house your parents bought was on the market because the sellers didn't want my mama in the neighborhood. Maybe the good grades that eventually led you to law school were possible because your mama didn't have to work eighteen hours a day, and was there to read to you at night, or make sure you did your homework. How often do you remind yourself how lucky y..
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white-privilege
race
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Jodi Picoult |
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1693624
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The whole point of this examination is to make me feel lesser than... but I have spent 20 years seeing how beautiful women are. Not because of how they look, but because of what their bodies can withstand.
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Jodi Picoult |
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5769d07
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the part of the brain, physiologically, that allows us to blame everything on people we do not really know is the same part of the brain that allows us to have compassion for strangers
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Jodi Picoult |
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To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
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Jodi Picoult |
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f0c1bf5
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Just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way.
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Jodi Picoult |
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68581d3
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And naturally she wanted to believe she would have been a hero, when push came to shove. But you never knew what path you'd take until you got to that crossroads.
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Jodi Picoult |
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007343e
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This is what it means to be human. We are all just canvases for our scars.
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life-journey
scars
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Jodi Picoult |
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c6cc1c0
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On the day before classes were supposed to start, Mama took me out to dinner. "You're destined to do small great things," she told me. "Just like Dr. King said." She was referring to one of her favorite quotes: If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes, to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least." - Julia Romano"
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Jodi Picoult |
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Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
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life
witness
parent
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Jodi Picoult |
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582d411
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Anna anna bo banna, banana fanna fo fanna, me my mo manna...Anna." "Chuck! Do Chuck!"
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Jodi Picoult |
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She falters, then gather up the weeds of her thoughts and offers me the saddest, truest bouquet.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Death is the guest you didn't invite: arriving when you least expect it, least need it and when you least want it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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1cb6085
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Is it really worth dying for the person you love?
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Jodi Picoult |
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1aa51b4
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When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.
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Jodi Picoult |
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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you....forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to ..
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Jodi Picoult |
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cf43e4c
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If you are a mother, you must have someone to take care of. If that someone is taken from you, whether it is a newborn or an individual old enough to have offspring of its own, can you still call yourself a mother?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When some-one dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, there are plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.
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Jodi Picoult |
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53eae93
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The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it's the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole.
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Jodi Picoult |
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720c157
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Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
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Jodi Picoult |
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903dddf
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Darkness, you know, is relative.
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Jodi Picoult |
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13db948
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Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.
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Jodi Picoult |
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765da1d
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I mean, who the hell has a turret on their house, besides Rapunzel?
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Jodi Picoult |
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ed8ea4b
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If you hid long enough, a ghost among men, you might disappear forever without anyone noticing. It's human nature to ensure that someone has seen the mark you left behind.
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Jodi Picoult |
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93940ab
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So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific.
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Jodi Picoult |
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507b397
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There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.
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autism
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Jodi Picoult |
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dff2784
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You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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dd0589b
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Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.
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Jodi Picoult |