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I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live
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suicide
the-pact
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.
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mothers
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And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less
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Jodi Picoult |
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What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?
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world
puzzle
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their li..
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dream
disappointment
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Jodi Picoult |
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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love
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Jodi Picoult |
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Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown."
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Jodi Picoult |
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What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.
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life
ran
jodi-picoult
perfect-match
moral
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Jodi Picoult |
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What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.
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Jodi Picoult |
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He's not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He's the sort of guy who wouldn't mind reading side by side on a date.
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Jodi Picoult |
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She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck."
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Jodi Picoult |
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you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice"
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heartbreak
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Jodi Picoult |
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It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can't undo something that's happened; you can't take back a word that's already been said out loud.
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Jodi Picoult |
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What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.
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loss
love
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Jodi Picoult |
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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
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hate
love
suffer
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Jodi Picoult |
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She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.
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Jodi Picoult |
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She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
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obsession
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Jodi Picoult |
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. --BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Jodi Picoult |
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You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green."
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love
perfect
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Jodi Picoult |
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We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.
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interesting
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Jodi Picoult |
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Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
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Jodi Picoult |
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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
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inspirational
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Jodi Picoult |
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The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can miss a person you've never known.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
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prayer
wish
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Jodi Picoult |
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2853b0e
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Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner ..
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relationships
love
gay-rights
tolerance
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Jodi Picoult |
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Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
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Jodi Picoult |
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What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most."
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mermaid
oliver
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Jodi Picoult |
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Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The only monsters I have ever known were men.
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monsters
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Jodi Picoult |
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4b8e679
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The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
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love
law
ethics
decisions
morals
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Jodi Picoult |
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5c83f57
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Maybe I was naive to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
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silence
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