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Josie said] "I just ... I don't like the way you treat kids who aren't like us, all right? Just because you don't want to hang out with losers doesn't mean you have to torture them, does it?" "Yeah, it does," Matt said. "Because if there isn't a them, there can't be an us." His eyes narrowed. "You should know that better than anyone."
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Jodi Picoult |
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Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?
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Jodi Picoult |
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You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of your child you still could in what he had become. Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You?" I start to laugh. "Look at you. You're a knock-out. You're smarter than I am. You're on a career track and you're family-centered and you probably even can balance your checkbook." "And I'm lonely, Cambell." Jewel adds. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zipcode. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've..
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true-love
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You have a choice. You can just go on the facts and form your own opinions. Or you can hold the truth in your hands, and see it for the gift it is.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Is there any place on Earth that smells better than a laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed - comfort food for your nose.
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rain
family
happiness
life
sunday
laundromat
safety
father
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dec81f5
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Nurse: "You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet." Joe: "I'm actually a lawyer." Nurse: "My condolences."
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Jodi Picoult |
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so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are just some feelings, I've learned, for which we never invented the right words.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You are not an impostor," Sam Hallowell told me. "You are not there because of luck, or because you happened to be in the right place at the right moment, or because someone like me had connections. You are there because you are you, and that is a remarkable accomplishment in itself."
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Jodi Picoult |
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Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn't nearly as important as what was right.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It struck Lacy that she didn't really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing
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Jodi Picoult |
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Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down.
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Jodi Picoult |
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268903a
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This wasn't the first time he'd be saving her by letting her go.
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Jodi Picoult |
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8c0d930
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There are an endless number of people who have left a love-shaped hole in the heart of someone else.
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Jodi Picoult |
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36a740d
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A villain let your creativity out of its cage.
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Jodi Picoult |
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2e4e221
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I honestly can't tell if [she's] being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach between your teeth or when your ass looks fat in a pair of jeans or when you're being a bitch. They tell you, and there's no drama or agenda, like there would be if the message had come from your husband. They tell you the truth because you need to hear it, but it doesn't alter the bond between you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there's a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one. Negative moments get remembered. Traumatic ones get forgotten, or so warped that they are unrecognizable, or else they turn into the big, bleak, white nothing I get in my head when I try to focus on that night.
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Jodi Picoult |
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edf2f58
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You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.
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Jodi Picoult |
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She had tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize that in her hurry, she must have left it behind somewhere.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I want her to be safe. I want her to be mine.
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mariah
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Jodi Picoult |
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c344fd2
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Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.
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families
perspective
logic
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Jodi Picoult |
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3b998ab
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How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and live with the choice you made?
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Jodi Picoult |
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8fe485b
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She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I used to have pink hair," I told Seven. "I used to have a real job," he answered. "What happened?" He shrugged. "I dyed my hair pink. What happened to you?"
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life
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Jodi Picoult |
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90784a2
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Jacob's concept: The concept of Asperger's is like a flavoring added to a person and although my concentration is higher than those of others, if tested everyone would have traces of this condition too.
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Jodi Picoult |
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This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon.
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Jodi Picoult |
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11fd8e3
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They were different places in that same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.
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Jodi Picoult |
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She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess.
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Jodi Picoult |
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And if you don't find what you're looking for?" At Roy's question Addie looked up. "Then all I've lost is time."
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time
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Jodi Picoult |
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14e5b6b
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But you remind me so much of her." "I-I do?" "Yes." Addie gifted him with a smile."Because I love you both."
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Jodi Picoult |
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It never failed to amaze Alex how, with the brush of a hand, the track of someone's life might veer in a completely different direction.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Over her shoulder was Josie-and for the first time, Alex could really see a piece of herself in her daughter. It wasn't so much the shape of the face but the shine of it; not the color of the eyes but the dream caught like smoke in them. There was no amount of expensive makeup that would make her look the way her Josie did; that was simply what falling in love did to a person. Could you be jealous of your own child?
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Jodi Picoult |
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She had smiled her way through the births and had offered the new mothers the support and the medical care that they needed, but the moment she'd sent them on their way, cutting that last umbilical cord between hospital and home, Lacy knew she was giving them the wrong advice. Instead of easy platitudes like Let them eat when they want to eat and You can't hold a baby too much, she should have been telling them the truth: This child you've ..
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Jodi Picoult |
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I didn't want to invade his privacy; I didn't want to fight with him; I didn't want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted him to be a child forever." She glanced up, crying harder now. "But you can't do that, if you're a parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up."
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Jodi Picoult |
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I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Cuando eres adolescente no eres intocable. Eres estupido.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Las cosas existen mientras haya quien que las recuerde.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in the constellation. Look, he would say. There is the head, and the tail. There's the heart.
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Jodi Picoult |
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6ef16c6
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The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison.
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mirror-of-my-soul
native-americans
wolf
philosophy-of-life
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Jodi Picoult |