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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?
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philosophy
sister
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That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You build a wall to keep something unwanted out ... or to hold something precious in.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
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dreams
taking-chances
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Jodi Picoult |
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Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.
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Jodi Picoult |
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To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until..
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the-role-model-big-sister
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Jodi Picoult |
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It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.
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Jodi Picoult |
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That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
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Jodi Picoult |
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What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
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honesty
secrets
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Jodi Picoult |
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There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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suffering
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Jodi Picoult |
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There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
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fairness
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Jodi Picoult |
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You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.
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pain
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Jodi Picoult |
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Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were..
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motherhood
pregnancy
parents
mother
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Jodi Picoult |
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Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.
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Jodi Picoult |
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well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
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wisdom
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Jodi Picoult |
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They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
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jodi
picoult
bullets
fake
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Jodi Picoult |
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there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?
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Jodi Picoult |
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You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
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Jodi Picoult |
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What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
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parenting
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Jodi Picoult |
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Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
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Jodi Picoult |
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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.
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Jodi Picoult |
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No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe aga..
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the-pact
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Jodi Picoult |
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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
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life
jodi-picoult
lone-wolf
wolves
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Jodi Picoult |
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Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I wonder if 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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But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.
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Jodi Picoult |