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My Sister's Keeper (2004)
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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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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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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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It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
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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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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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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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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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I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.
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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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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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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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Do you remember the summer we signed you up for camp? And the night before you left, you said you've changed your mind and wanted to stay home? I told you to to get a seat on the left side of the bus, so when you pulled away, you'd be able to look back and see me there waiting for you." I press her hand against my cheek, hard enough to leave a mark. "You get that same seat in Heaven. One where you can watch me, watching you.
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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
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When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.
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The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night—because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
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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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There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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May 19, 1966
(age 57)
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