Jodi Picoult: When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you do...

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

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mom mother children

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

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unwanted wall life

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

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spokes empty okay

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

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heartache

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

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smart cat thinking

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

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perfume eyelids memories

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

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my-sisters-keeper realizing long

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

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instinct family mother

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

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choices fall thinking

$After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can... by Jodi Picoult$

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

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stress broken heart

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

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superhero mind people

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

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differences phones numbers

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

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different names love

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

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secret want mean

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

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what-you-deserve karma fate

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

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eye reflection children

I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

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atrocities nightmare done

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

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first-love inspirational years

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

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infatuation real persons

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

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where-you-are confused mean

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.