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I am angry at myself, at the world, but because it is easier, I lash out at him.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You don't borrow trouble.
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What if one of us dies? What happens then?' I reached around and turned on the light to see the clock: 3:20 A.M. 'I suppose we'd remarry.' 'Just like that!' Jane exploded. She sat up in bed, facing away from me. 'You can't just pick a wife off a shelf.' 'Of course not. I just meant that if I happened to die young I'd want you to be happy.' 'How could I be happy without you? When you get married, you make the biggest decision of your life; y..
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This year in school she read Romeo and Juliet, and she told me pragmatically that Romeo was a wimp. He should have just taken Juliet and run away with her, swallowed his pride and worked at some medieval McDonald's. What about the poetry, I asked her. What about the tragedy? And Rebecca told me that that's all very well and good but it isn't the way things happen in real life.
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Corazon smiled at him. "You know how your mother keeps her Christmas card list? How she sends to people who send her one, and that list gets longer and longer every year? - "Yeah," Jack muttered. "I have to lick the damn stamps." -Watch your mouth," Cora reprimanded. "See love's like that. Once you give it, even by accident, you're on that list forever."
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Jodi Picoult |
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06b397d
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If all I could ever have is you, I'd be a billionaire.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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d22bc30
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Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have done both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.
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Jodi Picoult |
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back. So why am I so worried about making a first impression? I answer my own question: Because you only get to do it once. Every time after, you are only making up for what happened during that initial meeting.
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Jodi Picoult |
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6d63d8d
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In my opinion, the very fact that Mark doesn't know this diagnostic criterion suggests that he's a lot closer to actual retardation than I am.
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jacob
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Jodi Picoult |
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Be history, instead of just watching it happen from the sidelines. Try something new, even if it scares you to death. Learn because you love to learn, not because you're being tested. Don't whine - there is always someone who's having a worse day than you are. Be honest with yourself, and you'll never have anything to hide.
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Jodi Picoult |
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f79a051
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She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.
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pain
sobbing
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Jodi Picoult |
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98acfd0
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Doves coo in the rafters above us as she sits down on the blanket, her loathed dress whispering around her. She pops a grape into her mouth and sighs. "This is so unreal. I feel like a princess." She couldn't have given me a better opening for the conversation I've been hoping to have.
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p-257
pre-preposal
oliver
princess
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Jodi Picoult |
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There is no grief amount wolves. Nature has a wonderful way of making you face reality. You can sit and weep if you want, but you are likely to be killed while you're still in your mourning, because you let your guard down.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Or in other words: There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really an alpha all along.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It is amazing how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Seems indecisive, doesn't it? Either be a period or be a comma, but make up your mind.
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Jodi Picoult |
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309ec3a
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I release Josef, who collapses to my feet, and confesses not just to all war crimes at Auschwitz but also for being responsible for the colossal mistakes New Coke and Sex and the City 2.
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Jodi Picoult |
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0c0001a
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Entre uma boa accao e uma ma accao existem mil tons de cinzento.
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Jodi Picoult |
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37568c2
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think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room--but eventually, you learn to live with it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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7125d71
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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo--far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
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Jodi Picoult |
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65ea117
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He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.
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Jodi Picoult |
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6043c22
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At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one.
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Jodi Picoult |
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0500563
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The terrible thing about falling in love is that real life always gets in the way.
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Jodi Picoult |
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03a0a8b
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You'd think a house would last forever, but the truth is a strong wind or a wrecking ball can devastate it. The family inside is not so different.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Oliver," she says. "You can do this." I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someone believes in you wholeheartedly, you start to believe in yourself as well."
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Jodi Picoult |
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What do parents look like?" "You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that."
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Jodi Picoult |
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I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive--the sum of the parts equals more than the whole.
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Jodi Picoult |
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My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds."
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Jodi Picoult |
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How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, but as long as Em was with him, he was at home?
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Jodi Picoult |
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My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds." "I'm sorry." He shrugged. "I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room--but eventually, you learn to live with it."
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Jodi Picoult |
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unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When Javert finally realized that Valjean had something he himself didn't--mercy--did he shrug and find a new obsession, like knitting or Game of Thrones? No. Because without Valjean to hate, he didn't know who he was anymore.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The truth is, if I do miraculously manage to put the right words together, it's by default, because I've already used up all the wrong ones.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their due so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they Starr to run out of fuel,they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.
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stars
supernova
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11f01a4
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Do you think there will ever be a time when racism doesn't exist?" "No, because that means white people would have to buy into being equal. Who'd choose to dismantle the system that makes them special"
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't want their help," he explodes. "I don't want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case."
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Jodi Picoult |
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62083c9
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You don't know what you don't know,
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Jodi Picoult |
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72a8b99
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My mother nods toward Violet and her little friend, sprinkling grass over their mud pies. "This has been going on so much longer than either of us, Kennedy. From where you stepped in, in your life, it looks like we've got miles to go. But me?" She smiles in the direction of the girls. "I look at that, and I guess I'm amazed at how far we've come." --"
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Jodi Picoult |
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d55d183
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We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.
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loneliness
isolationism
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Jodi Picoult |
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6e10452
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What twisted deity would grant you the superpower of fatherhood to protect someone who, one day, would not need you?
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Jodi Picoult |
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could not be blamed just because no one ever mentioned that once you closed the storybook, Cinderella still had to do laundry and clean the toilet and take care of the crown prince.
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Jodi Picoult |