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Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction. (Jodi Picoult)
Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed. View quote
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And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you. View quote
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But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail. View quote
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People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning. View quote
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Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. View quote
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I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day. View quote
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I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending. View quote
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As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child. View quote
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You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets. View quote
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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. (Jodi Picoult)
Happiness is what you choose to remember. View quote
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This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect. View quote
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They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again. View quote
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true love is felonious... You take someone's breath away... You rob them of the ability to utter a single word... You steal a heart. View quote
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Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. View quote
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Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. View quote
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I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. View quote
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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. View quote
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I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi! View quote
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As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? (Jodi Picoult)
Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish? View quote
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A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others. View quote
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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough. View quote
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I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly. View quote
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