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he glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to remember when she used to be his daughter.
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There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.
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I know that some neurologists think that autistic kids have brain synapses so close together and firing in such quick succession that they cause hyperawareness; that one of the reasons children on the spectrum rock or stim is to help them focus instead of having all sensations bombard them at once. I think clairvoyance isn't really all that much different. In all probability, neither is mental illness.
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I wonder if it's putting on someone else's skin for a while that she likes so much, or if it's the option of being able to send back a circumstance that just doesn't suit you.
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There is way too much to explain - my own blood seeping into my sister's veins; the nurses holding me down to stick me for white cells Kate might borrow; the doctor saying they didn't get enough the first time around. The bruises and the deep bone ache after I gave up my marrow; the shots that sparked more stem cells in me, so that there'd be extra for my sister. The fact that I'm not sick, but I might as well be. The fact that the only rea..
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There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
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we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.
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In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies. But there is one exception: In a year when there are limited resources-- a drought, say, or a herd that has grown too big to sustain feeding all its members in a given area-- the matriarch may make the decision to split the group. She will lead some of the elephants off in one direction, and her daughter will lead the rest on another route. They ..
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Heroes did not always swoop in to rescue. They made questionable calls. They lived with doubts. They replayed and edited and imagined different outcomes. They killed, sometimes, to save.
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heroism
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I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.
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The brain can do a lot of things, Olive said, but it can't distinguish between what's really happening and what you're imagining. That's why scary movies scare you and why you cry at Nicholas Sparks books.
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Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.
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Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn't control women's sexual independence. To them, this was the next best thing.
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It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.
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A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
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Catholics believed in life at conception. Muslims believed that it took forty-two days after conception for Allah to send an angel to transform sperm and egg into something alive...There were the outliers, too--the ancient Greeks, who said that a fetus had a "vegetable" soul, and the Jews, who said that the soul came at birth....Still, it didn't really make sense, did it? How could the moment that life began differ so much, depending on the..
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You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.' 'I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.
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WE ALL DO IT, YOU know. Distract ourselves from noticing how time's passing. We throw ourselves into our jobs. We focus on keeping the blight off our tomato plants. We fill up our gas tanks and top off our Metro cards and do the grocery shopping so that the weeks look the same on the surface. And then one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man. One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of y..
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When I run across something so incredible that I want to show it to someone else. The problem is, when you make the choice to be a loner, you lose that privilege.
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He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara
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BEING A MOTHER GIVES YOU a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel. Or hold him as he cries, but imagine his smile. Or watch him walk toward you, the size of a man, and see the dimpled skin of an infant.
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You can't create life in a place that's dying by degrees.
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I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?
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Jodi Picoult |
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I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen.
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I got precious little time for you to belong to me. I'm gonna make sure it isn't any shorter than it has to be.
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Jodi Picoult |
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That's what I think love is, when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever think to explore.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.
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untold-stories
perspective
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Don't go fighting my battles for me.
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Look at that," Michael said. "My daughter's an hour old and she's already sleeping with some guy."
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Most of the time, the words that were not written were the ones you needed the most.
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What would you grab, if you had to pack up your life in only minutes?
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It's raining. the kind of rain that comes down so heavy it sounds like the shower's running, even when you've turned it off. The kind of rain that makes you think of dams and flash floods, arks. The kind of rain that tells you to crawl back into bed, where the sheets haven't lost your body heat, to pretend that the clock is five minutes earlier than it really is. Ask any kid who's made it past fourth grade and they can tell you: water never..
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When we were little, Eric and Fitz and I invented a language. I've forgotten most of it, with the exception of a few words: valyango, which meant pirate; palapala, which meant rain; and ruskifer, which had no translation to English but described the dimpled bottom of a woven basket, all the reeds coming together to form one joint spot, and that we sometimes used to explain our friendship.
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I've always been a loner, and I've never really felt like I belong here. I'm like one of those women who read Jane Austen obsessively and still hope that Mr. Darcy might show up at the door. Or the Civil War reenactors, who growl at each other on battlefields now spotted with baseball fields and park benches. I'm the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.
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In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Could you love someone so much that, even without meaning to, you hurt them?
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No matter what you do for someone-no matter if you feed him a bottle as a baby or curl up with him at night to keep him warm or give him food so he's not hungry-make one wrong move at the wrong moment, and you become someone unrecognizable.
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There are two types of spirits. One makes the transition to the spirit realm and goes on to whatever comes next. They can still come back to connect with people who are alive, but it's like dropping by for a visit, and then they go back to whatever it is they were happily doing in the next life. On the other hand, earthbound spirits--ghosts--are folks who pass but still have unfinished business. They feel like they're going to be judged for..
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If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. - Chinese proverb
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You can invent any fiction and call it a life." "Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth." --
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Jodi Picoult |
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May be the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty first century sin...but whether the people who define sin have changed, because of the times.
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The age wasn't as important as the milestones.
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like yours. That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.
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