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This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.
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There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.
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I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart..." That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy," Shay said. "Just holier-than-thou."
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If the past few months have taught me anything, it's that friendship is a smoke screen. The people you think are solid turn out to be mirrors and light; and then you look down and realize there are others you took for granted, those who are your foundation.
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I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
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Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time" . . . they're lying"
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I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.
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something is always falling apart in me.
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The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
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Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.
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precaution
help
superstition
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Jodi Picoult |
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Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees
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I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.
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ettiquette
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she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them."
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Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
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Jodi Picoult |
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Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.
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Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time."
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People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
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My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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suffering
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You did really great up there," I tell her, because I don't know how to say what I really want to: that the people you love can surprise you every day. That 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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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.
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This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
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books
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When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been miss..
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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
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goodbyes
leaving
endings
starting-over
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Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?
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Jodi Picoult |
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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
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world
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A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
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Jodi Picoult |
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A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there's no right way and wrong way to do it. We're all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he's right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?
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You know how I see it? There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing--light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light...I guess from my point of view, we can choose to be in the dark, or we can light a candle. And for me, Christ is that candle.
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There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.
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choices
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Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong. (Jesse)
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This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
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prayer
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don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow -- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.
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