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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.Jodi Picoult
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People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.Jodi Picoult
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I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. .Jodi Picoult
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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.Jodi Picoult
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.Jodi Picoult
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Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.Jodi Picoult
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Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.Jodi Picoult
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But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.Jodi Picoult
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.Jodi Picoult
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Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.Jodi Picoult
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Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.Jodi Picoult
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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.Jodi Picoult
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But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.Jodi Picoult
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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.Jodi Picoult
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Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.Jodi Picoult
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No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.Jodi Picoult
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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.Jodi Picoult
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It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?Jodi Picoult
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She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful, ' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.' You are so full of shit, ' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed.Jodi Picoult
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Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.Jodi Picoult