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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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It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.
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Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.
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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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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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