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  1. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    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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  2. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
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  3. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    In my opinion, the very fact that Mark doesn't know this diagnostic criterion suggests that he's a lot closer to actual retardation than I am.
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  4. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it.
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  5. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no?
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  6. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    You want to hear something really sad?' I whisper. 'You're my best friend.''You're right. That is really sad.' Oliver grins.'That's not what I meant.''Are we still playing True Confessions?' he asks.'Is that what we're doing?'He reaches toward me and rubs a strand of my hair between his fingers. 'I think you're beautiful,' Oliver says. 'Inside and out.'He leans forward from the tiniest bit and breathes in, closing his eyes, before he lets the hair fall back against my cheek. I feel it inside me, as if I've been shocked.I don't pull away.I don't want to pull away.'I... I don't know what to say,' I stammer.Oliver's eyes light up. 'Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walk into mine,' he quotes. He moves slowly, so that I know what's coming, and kisses me.
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  7. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    It was not compassion that led to Daniel's change of heart, and it was not kindness. It was realizing that, against all odds, he had something in common with Jason Underhill. Like Daniel, Jason had learned the hard way that they we are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts, we can't become.
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  8. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.
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  9. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    Never ask your child a open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered."
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  10. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen.My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him.
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  11. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    Mothers are supposed to be their children's biggest cheerleaders. Mothers are supposed to believe in their children, no matter what. Mothers will lie to themselves, if necessary, to do this.
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  12. Jodi Picoult _ House Rules

    Jacob's concept: The concept of Asperger's is like a flavoring added to a person and although my concentration is higher than those of others, if tested everyone would have traces of this condition too.
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