Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper (2004)

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I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

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It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

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I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

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When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

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Don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

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Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

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The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we're desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

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Do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

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I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

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It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

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There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

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It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

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Remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

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Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

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Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

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Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

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They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

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Love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

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The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

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Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed—sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

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I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry.

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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 you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

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Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

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I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

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