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Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice. (Jodi Picoult)
Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. View quote
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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. View quote
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something is always falling apart in me. View quote
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Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear. View quote
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Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you. View quote
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The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate. View quote
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The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. View quote
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Even the most beautiful things can be toxic. View quote
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for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place. View quote
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People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety? (Jodi Picoult)
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? View quote
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What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most. View quote
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The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over. View quote
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Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again? View quote
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A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes... And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. View quote
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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die. View quote
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Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around. View quote
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sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. View quote
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. View quote
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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. (Jodi Picoult)
I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter. View quote
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I want to live," he said, "So I have to die. View quote
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On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong. View quote
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The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you. View quote
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