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I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice." "Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move." --
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metaphor
relationships
julia-romano
lightning
sisters
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She is the person I ran to when I got my period; the one who helped me knit back together my first broken heart; the hand I would reach for in the middle of the night when I could no longer remember which side our father parted his hair on, or what it sounded like when our mother laughed. No matter what she is now, before all that, she was my built-in best friend.
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sisters
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The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find you're looking at a globular cluster--a million stars that, to us, presents as a single entity. On a less dramatic note there are triples, like Alpha Centauri, which up close turns out to be a double star and a red dwarf in close proximity. There's an indigenous tribe in Africa that tells of li..
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stars
alpha-centauri
brian-fitzgerald
globular-cluster
plains-indians
pleiades
coincidence
greeks
design
perspective
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Jodi Picoult |
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But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through--the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You will ask yourself you will ask yourself
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Jodi Picoult |
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So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person?" "I don't know," I admit."But I do think that some stains never wash out."
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Jodi Picoult |
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Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see
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librarians
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Jodi Picoult |
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68baf4a
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She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language. Love. Help. Rape. Stop. Then.
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Jodi Picoult |
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pro-choice' is a misnomer. There is not really an issue of choice at all. It is against the law to cut short someone's life, period. To say that a fetus is not a life is to split hairs, since all major bodily systems are in place at the time most abortions are undertaken. To say that it is a woman's right to choose is also unclear, because it is not only her body but another's as well. In a society that stands behind the best interests of a..
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Jodi Picoult |
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The vast majority of protesters were men, and it made perfect sense to Louie--the male of the species felt threatened by the biology of women. Even in the Bible, normal female biological functions were made pathological: You were unclean when you had your menses. Childbirth had to occur in pain. And there was the questionable nature of those who bled regularly--but did not die. There was, of course, the history, too. Women had been property..
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Jodi Picoult |
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You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.
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Jodi Picoult |
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So what have I learned that is helpful? Well, if you are white, like I am, you can't get rid of the privilege you have, but you can use it for good. Don't say I don't even notice race! like it's a positive thing. Instead, recognize that differences between people make it harder for some to cross a finish line, and create fair paths to success for everyone that accommodate those differences. Educate yourself. If you think someone's voice is ..
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Jodi Picoult |
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Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become. I imagine she thought the same, meeting me.
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Jodi Picoult |
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desperate people often do things that they normally would not do
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Jodi Picoult |
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ad0e2c4
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It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us hope. It meant that no matter what was happening in this camp, no matter how many Jews they managed to round up and kill, there were still more of us out there: living lives, falling in love, getting married, assuming that tomorrow would come.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's amazing what you can convince yourself of, if you buy into the lie.
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Jodi Picoult |
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0e7e577
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I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by almost everyone.
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loneliness
sadness
emptiness
empty
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Jodi Picoult |
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She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart.
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planned-parenthood
decisions
choices
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Jodi Picoult |
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d487d5c
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Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?
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german
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Jodi Picoult |
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deb91cd
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Silence has a sound
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Jodi Picoult |
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30f52da
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It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.
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strength
falling-apart
weakness
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Jodi Picoult |
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9fd24d0
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But we can't make policies based on religion when religion means different things to different people. Which leaves science. The science of reproduction is what it is. Conception is conception. You can decide the ethical value that has for you, based on your own relationship with God...but the policies around basic human rights with regard to reproduction shouldn't be up for interpretation.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. -Benjamin Franklin Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin She wore an expression I've only seen in paintings in museums, of a love and a grief so fierce that they forged together to create some new, raw emotion. There are two types of people who become public defenders: those who bel..
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Jodi Picoult |
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bb5d2e1
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There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I went to law school for the same reason everyone else goes to law school: I had no idea what to do with my life and my parents were paying.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Concrete answers came easily; nonchalance didn't.
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Jodi Picoult |
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5c29863
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It wasn't her throat, and it wasn't a fever, but it hurt all the same to be heartbroken.
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Jodi Picoult |
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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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Jodi Picoult |
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What did you say to the people who had given you life, when you were about to intentionally throw that gift away?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Would you rather spend the rest of your life thinking about us, and remembering it as something totally perfect, or would it be better to let it get all screwed up and have that as your memory?
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Jodi Picoult |
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c5471eb
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Delilah's mother cleans other people's houses, and she reminds me a bit of another story from Rapscullio's shelves, about a young scullery maid who possesses both glass footwear and inner beauty, which makes a prince fall head over heels for her.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips of her free hand gently touching her mouth, whispering, "Beloved."
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Jodi Picoult |
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It is very hard to believe you when I'm trying so hard to pretend it never happened.
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Jodi Picoult |
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181ec07
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They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.
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Jodi Picoult |
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49d5f06
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Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.
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worth
loss
love
jodi-picoult
value
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Jodi Picoult |
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9621030
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Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.
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Jodi Picoult |
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6b3655c
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Given my mother's experience with romance, I shouldn't even care - but there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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47e72e4
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Happiness was relative
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Jodi Picoult |
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a396330
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Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning into someone she did not want to be.
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Jodi Picoult |
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4acf4d5
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It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one.
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Jodi Picoult |
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7dd453b
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May be it took realizing that you could die to keep you from wanting to do it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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efbe772
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she finally said,
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Jodi Picoult |