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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

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You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

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People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

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Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

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What does it feel like? he asked. What does what feel like? Peter thought for a moment. Being at the top. Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. Like if you take one wrong step, she said, you're going to fall.

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The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

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There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

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I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

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Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

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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.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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