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Jodi Picoult

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01Undated

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

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02Undated

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

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03Undated

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

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04Undated

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

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05Undated

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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06Undated

Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike."What do you mean?"Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

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07Undated

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

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08Undated

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

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09Undated

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

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10Undated

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

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11Undated

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

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12Undated

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

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13Undated

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

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14Undated

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

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15Undated

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

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16Undated

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

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17Undated

Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

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18Undated

I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my life.

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19Undated

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?

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20Undated

Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.

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21Undated

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

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22Undated

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

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23Undated

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

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24Undated

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

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