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How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
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conversation
smiling
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Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.
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love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
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What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
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life
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Jodi Picoult |
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The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting
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I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong plac..
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Jodi Picoult |
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
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Jodi Picoult |
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people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.
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Jodi Picoult |
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An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they're the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they need to read your child's chart to remember where they've left off from the previous visit. It is the nurses who are the seasoned sergeants -- the ones who are there when your baby is shaking with such a high fever she needs to be bathed in ice..
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movie-adaptations
my-sister-s-keeper
wonderful
nurses
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Jodi Picoult |
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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inspirational
jodi-picoult
lone-wolf
wise
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Jodi Picoult |
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And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
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kids
disappoint
more-like-us
spectacular
than-we-think
pretend
damaged
perfect
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if m..
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marriage
love
partner
years
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Jodi Picoult |
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If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
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heartbroken
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Jodi Picoult |
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Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.
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Jodi Picoult |
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if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.
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life
salem-falls
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Jodi Picoult |
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If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.
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mistakes
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Jodi Picoult |
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do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Everyone deserves a happy ending.
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Jodi Picoult |
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A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
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Jodi Picoult |
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
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people
mothers
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Jodi Picoult |
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The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her?
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love
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I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
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Jodi Picoult |
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All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.
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struggle
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't know. But I know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want , not . I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.
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love
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.
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Jodi Picoult |
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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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Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.
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monster
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.
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life
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.
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grief
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Jodi Picoult |
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My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn't all about me?
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obsession
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Jodi Picoult |
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The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.
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Jodi Picoult |
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No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
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