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“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.”
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“But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through—the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different.”
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“In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities that they only dreamed of.”
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“When I kept someone else from getting hurt, did I hurt you?”
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“When I had been really little and the wind blew like mad at night, I had trouble sleeping. My father would come in and tell me that the house wasn't made of straw or sticks, that it was brick, and like the little pigs knew, nothing could tear it down. Here's what the little pigs didn't realize: the big bad wolf was only the start of their problems. The biggest threat was already inside the house with them, and couldn't be seen. Not radon gas or carbon monoxide, but just the way three very different personalities fit inside one small space. Tell me that the slacker pig - the one who only mustered up straw - really could get along with the high-maintenance bricklayer pig. I think not. I'll bet you if that fairy tale went on another ten pages, all three of those pigs would have been at each other's throats, and that brick house would have exploded after all.”
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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.”
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“What people said they would do and what people actually did were two very different things.”
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“most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us.”
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“I thought that if I loved you hard enough, I could move mountains for you; I could make you fly. It didn’t matter to me how that happened—just as long as it did. I wasn’t thinking of who I might hurt, only who I could rescue.”
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“Sometimes I think there’s a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that’s where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can’t help but do something inappropriate.”
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“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. —WALLACE STEGNER, THE SPECTATOR BIRD”
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“people who didn’t talk about their problems got to pretend they didn’t have any. People who discussed what was wrong, on the other hand, fought and ached and felt miserable.”
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“Can’t you hear it?’ you said. ‘When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it’s safe inside your mouth.”
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“The world would be a much easier place if, instead of handing over superstuffed syllables all the time, we just said what we really meant. 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.”
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“Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.”
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“Now, I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”
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“Maybe it was because I wanted to control one part of me that had been uncontrollable, so the rest of me would fall into line.”
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“Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA does not make you fast friends. This was not a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.”
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“Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying the plot and the characters, but you'd probably also like to read that first line, too. However, when you took the book back to the store to say that the first chapter was missing, they told you they couldn't sell you a replacement copy that was intact. What if you read that first chapter and realized you hated the book, and posted a nasty review on Amazon? What if you hurt the author's feelings? Better just to stick with your partial copy and enjoy the rest of the story.”
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“Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or promises—can be put back together but will never really be whole. And,”
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“By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All”
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“Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up. I”
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“When you don’t have what you want, you have to want what you have.”
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“Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I”
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“I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you’d be disappointed.”
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“I was healthy. I wasn’t starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn’t enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I”
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“If you chose to stop a loved one’s suffering—either before it began or during the process—was that murder, or mercy?”
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“doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.” The”
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“Can you miss a person you’ve never known?” There”
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“I think it’s human nature that those of us who are married cannot rest easy until we find mates for our single friends.”
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