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Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, th..
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You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.
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It's the Lord's will," she said quietly. "You get through it. You just never get over it."
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A filament of sensation sizzled between them, like a thin string of kerosene that, for the love of a match, could turn into a wall of fire.
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I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one.
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When it rains," her father said "it pours."
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truth
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The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my weight accelerates, head-over-heels. Then I think, falling is the first step in learning how to fly.
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Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. It is the place I come back to, no matter where I've been headed.
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Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall for man she can never have.
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The safety of the rescuer is of a higher priority than the safety of the victim. Always. *
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I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up.
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May be there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.
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when you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because we can't see a fourth dimensions doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just me ands we haven't reached it yet.
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What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.
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family
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He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you "had love toward" her, as if itwere a physical thing you could present and hold--a bundle of tulips, a golden ring, a parcel of tenderness."
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Family's not a thing, it's a place,' Shay said softly. 'It's where all the memories get kept.
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You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your futue
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How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom
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The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not to.
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I asked her sister for a cell number, at least, but something tells me that 401-GO2-HELL is out of service.
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I have met convicted child molesters before. They don't waer badges or brands or tattoos announcing their vice. It's hidden under a soft, grandfatherly smile; it's tucked in the pocket of a buttoned down shirt. They look the rest of us, and that's what makes it so frightening - to know that these beasts move among us, and we are none the wisest. They have girlfriends and wives who have loved them, unaware.
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The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions. More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.
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Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.
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People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.
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religion
god
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Oh, darling, that's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.
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love-quotes
romance
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Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?
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courage
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It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away.
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There's a problem with wounded birds. 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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I also mistakenly believed that the scariest stories came from imagination, not real life.
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I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone.I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me.I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not
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For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child ..it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.
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oh shit, i think. my cheeks are on fire; my heart starts to pound.
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I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules--if she could hear you . . ." My voice trails off. "Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy?" Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you?"
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truth
between-the-lines
delilah-mcphee
hearing-voices
oliver
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There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.
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secret
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privacy
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People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her soul.
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second-glance
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The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve.
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someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply
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I might never be a cover girl, but I was a girl who could cover it all.
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Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.
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father
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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
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As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.
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A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I was surprised that Kurt seemed to understand that you might never love someone as hard as you had the first time you'd fallen; I was even more surprised to learn that maybe you could.
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