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I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.
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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
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Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
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My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.
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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
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Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.
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Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
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There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
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Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.
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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.
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It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.
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What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
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Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.
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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
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And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.
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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
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You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.
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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
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If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
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You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.
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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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