Do you have kids?" Anna asks. I laugh. "What do you think?"" It's probably a good thing, " she admits. "No offense, but you don't exactly look like a parent." That fascinates me. "What do parents look like?" She seems to think about this. "You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that. Jodi Picoult
When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.
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Anthony T. Hincks
VILLAIN.By Omrane Khuder.Staggering, tripping, stumbling down the tightrope, hastening to be set free. Yearning to be protected by the Superhero, before the Villain’s revulsion ingests me. Misplacing my footing on the tightrope, hands sweltering as the rope is pulled away. Glancing down at the fire...
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Omrane Khuder
Do you have kids?" Anna asks. I laugh. "What do you think?"" It's probably a good thing, " she admits. "No offense, but you don't exactly look like a parent." That fascinates me. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>"What do parents look like?" She seems to think about...
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Jodi Picoult
Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?tightrope - stone roses
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Matt Squire
More Quotes By Jodi Picoult
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
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.
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
