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She was the only one for whom the house didn't have to be cleaned, for whom she didn't have to wear her makeup, and around whom she could say anything without fear of repercussions, or of looking truly stupid.
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THE TRUTH and ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers
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The Thai people are pathologically shy. Combine that with a reluctance to lose face by giving a wrong answer, and it makes for a painfully long [ESL] class. Usually I ask the students to work on exercises in small groups, and then I move around and check their progress. But for days like today, when I'm grading on participation, speaking up in public is a necessary evil. "Jao," I say to a man in my class. "You own a pet store, and you want ..
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The problem with marriage - or may be its strength - was that it spanned a distance, and you were never the same person you started out being. If you were lucky, you could still recognize each other years later.
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I guess it's just so I remember where I started.
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If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened.
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Everything you said, Ellie, it's true. I should be very angry. I was, for a time, but now I'm not. Now I've gotten past my own selfishness to where I've got to help her. See, when you're Plain, you don't put yourself forward. You just don't do it, because that would be Hochmut-puffing yourself up-and the truth is there's always others more important than you. So Katie, when she hears others telling lies about her and this baby, she won't wa..
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If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way.
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Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room half the kids in Sterling High would have given their right arm to enter-but it was also a room from which there really wasn't an escape. Either Josie was someone she didn't want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted.
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I wont let you fall," he said, and because he never did, the world from that vantage point stops being so crazy."
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I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.
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Jodi Picoult |
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People are never who you think they are, that it was necessary to get a complete background check on a person before you made any promises.
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promises
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Jodi Picoult |
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what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what's in front of us. And sometimes, we don't see clearly at all.
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Jodi Picoult |
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She isn't the girl who used to live next door, hasn't been for years. Back then she had freckles and jeans with holes at the knees and a ponytail yanked so tight it made her eyes pull at the corners. Now she wears pantyhose and tailored suits; she has had the same short bob hairstyle for five years. But when Patrick gets close enough, she still smells like childhood to him.
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Your mama finds you like that, she's going to pitch a fit." "The only way she'd find out is if you told her I'd come out here with you, and then she'd be too angry at you to yell at me." "Guess we're partners in crime, then."
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keeping-faith
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she had asked. And Caleb's answer:
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I love the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying--like the sun striking th cheek of a tomato, or soap drying in the hood of a car. I loved the way his hand felt on my spine. I loved.
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love
reminiscing
nostalgia
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Si no corregimos la direccion en la que vamos, acabaremos en el lugar de donde venimos.
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Si le das el corazon a alguien y luego muere, ?se lo lleva consigo?
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Jodi Picoult |
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He called dreams a 'royal road' into the unconscious, made up of all forbidden wishes you had and you wished you didn't
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It had to be up at the top of the page, didn't it...." Oliver rolls his eyes and wearily looks at the sheer cliff of rock before him. "You do it for Seraphima," I point out."
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Best place to be?" Adrienne asks after a moment. "Before," I answer, because I know she'll understand."
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It's been a long time," I reply, when what I really want to do is ask her what she's been doing for the past fifteen years. If she still drinks tea with milk and lemon. If she's happy."
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reconnecting
reminiscing
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This judge has a chip on her shoulder the size of the whole goddamned courthouse.
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If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?
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humor
laundry
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the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.
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A fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.. And when flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Every life has a beginning, a middle, and an end; dissect history and you'll see the word that defines it as a tale, a narrative.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it. Like scanning the newspaper headline at a red light, and therefore missing the rogue van that jumps the line of traffic and causes an accident. Entering a coffee shop on a whim and meeting the man you will marry one day, while he's digging for change at the counter. Or this one: instructing your husband to meet you, when for hours you..
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But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Suicides, almost by definition, are all ghosts - stuck earthbound because they are desperate to apologize to their loved ones or because they are so ashamed of themselves.
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Jodi Picoult |
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in order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened.
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Real fairy tales are not for the fainthearted. Children get eaten by witches and chased by wolves; women fall into comas and are tortured by evil relatives. Somehow all that pain and suffering is worthwhile, though, when it leads to the ending: happily ever after. Suddenly it no longer matters if you got a B- on your midterm in French or you're the only girl in the school who doesn't have a date for the spring formal. Happily ever after tru..
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Maybe bad things happen because it's the only we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.
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Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feelings bears you like a tide.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It is such a heady rush to be the object of someone's attention in a good way, not as a freak, that I keep forgetting to hide.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to to believe the best about someone if you truly love him.
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Jodi Picoult |
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We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can keep dividing and dividing and you'll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no
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