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It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

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Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

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Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

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I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

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I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

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I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

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You keep distracting me, I tell her. All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you! Exactly, I say, and I smile at her.j

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I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

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But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

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What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.

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Because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

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We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

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What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

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What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

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The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

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People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

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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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Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

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Parenting isn't a noun but a verb—an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

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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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Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

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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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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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The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

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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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Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

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By now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

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People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

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People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

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