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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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He's not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He's the sort of guy who wouldn't mind reading side by side on a date.
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Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.
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Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.
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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
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As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her, she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.
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Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
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I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
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Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?
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I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.
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It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.
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If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?
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You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.
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You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.
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No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
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To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
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Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.
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But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.
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Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.
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You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever
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Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.
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Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.
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How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.
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I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.
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The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.
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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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