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After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.
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Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.
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When you look into your baby's eyes, Lacy said softly, you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won't become.
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You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
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Or. I hate that word. It's two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.
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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.
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You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
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A sacrament—like marriage—means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
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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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Born:
May 19, 1966
(age 57)
Bio:
Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide.
Known for:
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
The Pact (1998)
House Rules (2010)
Leaving Time (2014)
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