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  1. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
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  2. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.
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  3. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.
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  4. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they're the ones doing the tour of duty. The doctors breeze in and out like conquering heroes, but they need to read your child's chart to remember where they've left off from the previous visit. It is the nurses who are the seasoned sergeants -- the ones who are there when your baby is shaking with such a high fever she needs to be bathed in ice, the ones who can teach you how to flush a central venous catheter, or suggest which patient floor might still have Popsicles left to be stolen, or tell you which dry cleaners know how to remove the stains of blood and chemotherapies from clothing. The nurses know the name of your daughter's stuffed walrus and show her how to make tissue paper flowers to twine around her IV stand. The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
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  5. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
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  6. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
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  7. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.
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  8. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires
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  9. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.
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  10. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    What is ethical to a lawyer differs from what's ethical to the rest of the world.
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  11. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious."Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register.By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart."He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "Any judge would toss that case out on its ass.""You'd be surprised."Seven spread the rag out on the brass bar to dry. "Sounds like a misdemeanor, if you ask me."I rested my cheek on the cool, damp wood. "No way," I said. "Once you're in, it's for life.
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  12. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    when you don't know where your headed you find places no one else would ever think to explore
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