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What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?Jodi Picoult
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People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.Jodi Picoult
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What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?Jodi Picoult
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Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.Jodi Picoult
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How do you do it?"" Do what?"" All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered." Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he reached across the seat and brushed his thumb over her cheek; until then, she hadn't been aware she was crying. "Trix, " he sighed, "it mattered.Jodi Picoult
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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.Jodi Picoult
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I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the other hand, is just a command to ‘go do’.Jodi Picoult
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Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.Jodi Picoult
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It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.Jodi Picoult
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It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.Jodi Picoult
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DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.Jodi Picoult
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But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?Jodi Picoult
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The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.Jodi Picoult