Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper (2004)

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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

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It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

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You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

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My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

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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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It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

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There's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

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In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...

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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

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I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

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On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

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I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

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A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

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He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

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I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

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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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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

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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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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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