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Bleeding heart, he'd called her. Well. He should know. He'd been the first to rip it to pieces.

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A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

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I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

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"Oh, that's right. You're a ... what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you can't see."

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The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

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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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They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

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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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Take it from me: 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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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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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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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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What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

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Eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

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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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How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

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No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

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What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

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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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But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. 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." - My Sister's Keeper

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Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

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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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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

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The problem was, you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

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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...Just holier-than-thous.

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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

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If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

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