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You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.
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life-lessons
inspirational
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
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reunion
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Jodi Picoult |
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Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.
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Jodi Picoult |
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But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?
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Jodi Picoult |
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There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
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happiness
reality
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Jodi Picoult |
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If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most thi..
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stars
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Jodi Picoult |
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69b0c45
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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
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love
rules
unattainable
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Jodi Picoult |
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Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
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Jodi Picoult |
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I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
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Jodi Picoult |
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People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
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Jodi Picoult |
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What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.
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fathers
moon
stars
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Jodi Picoult |
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8c95dbb
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Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
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honesty
strength
wall
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Jodi Picoult |
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I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
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ethical
grief
jodi-picoult
life
moral
perfect-match
ran
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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. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.
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Jodi Picoult |
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24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
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parenting
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Jodi Picoult |
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That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
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jodi-picoult
loss
love
memory
plain-truth
remember
sad
wish
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Jodi Picoult |
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This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.
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empty
heartbreak
picoult
rage
secret
security
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Jodi Picoult |
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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.
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grief
life
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Jodi Picoult |
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You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you're afraid for the next moment, because it couldn't possibly be quite as good? That's what it felt like.
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Jodi Picoult |
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People always want to know what it feels like, so I'll tell you: there's a sting when you first slice, and then your heart speeds up when you see the blood, because you know you've done something you shouldn't have, and yet you've gotten away with it. Then you sort of go into a trance, because it's truly dazzling--that bright red line, like a highway route on a map that you want to follow to see where it leads. And--God--the sweet release, ..
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Jodi Picoult |
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Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.
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loss
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Jodi Picoult |
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Let me tell you what you feel like when you know you are ready to die. You sleep a lot, and when you wake up the very first thought in your head is that you wish you could go back to bed. You go entire days without eating, because food is a commodity that keeps you here. You read the same page a hundred times. You rewind your life like a videocassette and see the things that make you weep, things that make you pause, but nothing that makes ..
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Jodi Picoult |
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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
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Jodi Picoult |
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After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
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Jodi Picoult |
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History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.
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Jodi Picoult |
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And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded
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Jodi Picoult |
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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
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resilience
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Jodi Picoult |
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Lie to yourself until it's true.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
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Jodi Picoult |
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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desires
love
wants
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is 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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Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?
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happens
know
life
matter
minute
minutes
moments
remember
think
world-moves
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Jodi Picoult |
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I ...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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corporeal-punishment
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Jodi Picoult |
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.
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love
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Jodi Picoult |
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There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.
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Jodi Picoult |