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“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: imperfect, love

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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.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

tags: adoration, love, possessiveness

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#4

“It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#5

“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disillusionment, growing-up, narrow-mindedness, open-mindedness, wonder

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#6

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

tags: bereavement, casket, death, funeral, heart, loss, love, mourning

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#7

“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on.

You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
― Jodi Picoult

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#8

“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#9

“You can't edit a blank page”
― Jodi Picoult

tags: from-npr

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#10

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld

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#11

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

tags: destruction, freedom

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#12

“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. ”
― Scott Westerfeld

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#13

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Uglies Trilogy

tags: appreciation, beauty, tally

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#14

“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

tags: life, peeps, scott-la, scott-westerfeld

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#15

“humanity is a cancer on the body of the world”
― Scott Westerfeld

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#16

“Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days

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#17

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life, love

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#18

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

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#19

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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#20

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#21

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: identity, originality

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#22

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: death, scars, tyler-durden

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#23

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: life

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#24

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: future

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#25

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: chance, happiness, risk

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#26

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: love

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#27

“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: education, game-shows, trivia

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#28

“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: chaos, discovery

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#29

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: unique

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#30

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: conversation, human-nature, weekend

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