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Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?
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Jodi Picoult |
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I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
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inspirational
proverv
wisdom
chinese
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When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
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self-abnegation
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Jodi Picoult |
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What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.
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loneliness
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Jodi Picoult |
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the people you love can surprise you every day... maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
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She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough to me. I taste her and realize I have been starving. I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this.
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jodi-picoult
jodi-picoult-sing-you-home
kiss
lesbians
love
lovers
romance
sing-you-home
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You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
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self-delusion
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
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My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
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family
love
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."
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On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.
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autism
cats
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?
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Jodi Picoult |
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What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.
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Jodi Picoult |
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remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.
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hold
hug
parent
picoult
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Jodi Picoult |
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My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.
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sadness
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacat..
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men
women
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Jodi Picoult |
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Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
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pain
scar
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Jodi Picoult |
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Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.
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Jodi Picoult |
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They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
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Jodi Picoult |
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when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
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The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.
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My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
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loss
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's choice that makes us human.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?
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Jodi Picoult |
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I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
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parenting
parents
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Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me..
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Jodi Picoult |
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Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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truth
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Jodi Picoult |
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I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.
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house-rules
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Jodi Picoult |
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Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized...
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children
motherhood
parenting
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Jodi Picoult |
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All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
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mothers-and-daughters
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Jodi Picoult |
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She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.
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