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My Sister's Keeper (2004)
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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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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.
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Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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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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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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It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
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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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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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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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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly.
Gypsy Rose Lee
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May 19, 1966
(age 57)
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