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    Jodi Picoult
    “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Mercy
    tags: inequality, love, marriage
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    Jodi Picoult
    “There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
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    Jodi Picoult
    “It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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    Jodi Picoult
    “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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    Jodi Picoult
    “Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You can't edit a blank page”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: from-npr
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    Jodi Picoult
    “words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
    tags: grief, joy, limits, wonder, words
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    Jodi Picoult
    “No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Pact
    tags: the-pact
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
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    Jodi Picoult
    “What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, House Rules
    tags: grammar-humor
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: memory
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    Jodi Picoult
    “The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: hospital, inspirational, nurses
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
    tags: anxiety, humor, simile
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    Jodi Picoult
    “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, Salem Falls
    tags: power-of-words, salem-falls, truth, words
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    Jodi Picoult
    “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.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: true-love
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    Jodi Picoult
    “The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: inspirational, love, pain
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    Jodi Picoult
    “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.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
    tags: constancy, everlasting-love, love
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    Jodi Picoult
    “That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Pact
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
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  • #21
    William Paul Young
    “Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”
    ― William P. Young
    tags: relationships, trust
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Dee Henderson
    “I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”
    ― Dee Henderson, The Healer
    tags: inspirational, love, romantic
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    Stephanie Laurens
    “My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.”
    ― Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire
    tags: adoration, dream, longing, love, need, romance, yearning
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
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    Alyson Noel
    “I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
    ― Alyson Noel, Evermore
    tags: alyson, evermore, immortals, loss, noel
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
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    Umberto Eco
    “Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”
    ― Umberto Eco
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    Roger de Rabutin
    “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
    ― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
    tags: absence, long-distance-love, longing, love, separation
    573 likes



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