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People move too fast and talk too much, and before you know it, they come back to a place they don't want to be - except now they know there's nowhere left to run.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance between himself and the person who'd come for help.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.
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Jodi Picoult |
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He remembered learning in one of his social studies classes that in the Old West, when Native Americans were thrown into jail, they sometimes dropped dead. The theory was that someone so used to the freedom of space couldn't handle the confinement, but Peter had another interpretation. When the only company you had was yourself, and when you didn't want to socialize, there was only one way to leave the room.
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Jodi Picoult |
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They're a-" "-band," Patrick finished. "I know." "They're not just a band," Orestes said with reverence, his fingers flying over the keyboard. "They're the modern voice of the collective human conscience." "Tell that to Tipper Gore." "Who?" Patrick laughed. "She was before your time, I guess." "What did you used to listen to when you were a kid?" "The cavemen, banging rocks together," Patrick said dryly"
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Jodi Picoult |
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If only you could keep them that way: cast in amber, never growing up
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Jodi Picoult |
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In reality, Lacy realized, this dividing line between her and Peter had been there for years. If you kept your chin up, you might even be able to convince yourself there was nothing separating you. It was only when you tried to cross it, like now, that you understood how real a barrier it could be.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child's life, no matter how much you want to.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Peter tucked the glasses into the front pocket of Jordan's jacket. "I kind of like knowing you're taking care of them," he said. "And there isn't all that much I really want to see." Jordan nodded. He walked out of the holding cell and said good-bye to the deputies. Then he headed toward the lobby, where Selena was waiting. As he approached her, he put on Peter's glasses. "What's up with those?" she asked. "I kind of like them." "You have p..
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Jodi Picoult |
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6cc9cde
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Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. It couldn't save a single child-not the ones who'd gone to Sterling High that day, expecting the normal; not Josie Cormier; certainly not Peter. So what was the recipe? Was it love, mixed with something else for good measure? Luck? Hope? Forgiveness?
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Jodi Picoult |
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0e502b8
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A trial was a stupid word, considering that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.
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Jodi Picoult |
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fc4b9ed
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What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Can you see the pond?" From up here, I can. It is a piece of sky, lying on the ground. When Heaven breaks, who fixes it?"
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Jodi Picoult |
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8285d12
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tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la unica forma de que sigamos recordando como deberian ser las buenas.
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Jodi Picoult |
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con su vision recuperada, bajaba los ojos para no tener que ver.
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Jodi Picoult |
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7babc4e
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un arma no era nada si no habia una persona detras.
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Jodi Picoult |
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8ed564a
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When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. --CHINESE PROVERB
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Jodi Picoult |
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d8b80e3
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For the risk of it, for the sheer surprise of pressing one's nose to the glass and finding someone staring back on the other side.
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Jodi Picoult |
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dfe8422
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When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. Like: The fifth time's the charms.
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Jodi Picoult |
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886facc
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Is Understatement 101 a course in medical school?" "Of course. It's the prereq for Lying Through One's Teeth."
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Jodi Picoult |
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b734650
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It was a hairline crack, one might never have noticed, except for the fact it grew wider and wider, until there was a canyon between them. A child's job, ostensibly, was to grow up. So why, when it happened, did a parent feel so disappointed?
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Jodi Picoult |
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what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?" "I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back." But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lo..
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marriage
relationships
change
falling-apart
nostalgia
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Jodi Picoult |
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249c0a6
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She'd take these random occurrences and elevate them to oracles; she'd pretend that they were enough to justify her actions. Or lack therof.
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Jodi Picoult |
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2bf278e
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Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her.
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love
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Jodi Picoult |
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a72928d
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You'd be surprised." Charlie said. "You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit." "What the hell is Limp Bizkit?"
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humor
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Jodi Picoult |
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da3a710
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It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught.
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life
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Jodi Picoult |
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12e1883
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Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.
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Jodi Picoult |
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A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like may be he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like may be everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Never ask your child a open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered." --
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Jodi Picoult |
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I'm sick and tired of people in my life abandoning me, and she will be just one more. So I do what is easiest, when I feel like I'm in danger of being left behind. I make sure I'm the one to walk away first.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Only cheats go back on a promise.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are pictures of me, too, but not many. I go from infant to about ten years old in one fell swoop. Maybe it's because I was the third child, and they were sick and tired of keeping a catalog of life. Maybe it's because they forgot. It's nobody's fault, and it's not a big deal, but it's a little depressing all the same. A photo says, You were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, You were so important to me that i put down ev..
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.
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Jodi Picoult |
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df6d4cc
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There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
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Jodi Picoult |
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9108bde
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But Marice, he rode off to save you, and wound up leaving you behind forever. Is it really worth dying for the person you love?" She thinks about it for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, can you live without her?"
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Jodi Picoult |
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This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When he smiles at me, I am lost
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Jodi Picoult |
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450e334
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I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend." She swallowed and looked at the black ground. "The thing is, they're both you."
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Jodi Picoult |
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c65fb76
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Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?
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marriage
life
vows
sharing
promises
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Jodi Picoult |
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072f96a
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courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.
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courage
life
love
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Jodi Picoult |
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7bcb981
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If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.
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Jodi Picoult |
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61ba635
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Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal. They're not mutually exclusive.
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Jodi Picoult |
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4def893
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I'm surprised you can believe in God, after meeting so many evil people." "How could I not," Leo asks, "after meeting so many survivors"
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Jodi Picoult |