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Book: Off the Page
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
...maybe you believe that we fall into our future blindly, drifting from adventure to adventure, our journey zigzagging not according to plan but according to pure chance. Or just maybe, as random and haphazard as our lives seems--maybe that's exactly what the author had in mind.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
Oliver," she says. "You can do this." I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someone believes in you wholeheartedly, you start to believe in yourself as well.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
The terrible thing about falling in love is that real life always gets in the way.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
like yours. That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really fall? If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
Delilah's mother cleans other people's houses, and she reminds me a bit of another story from Rapscullio's shelves, about a young scullery maid who possesses both glass footwear and inner beauty, which makes a prince fall head over heels for her.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
I honestly can't tell if {she's} being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
Outside, the moon is a silver sliver. Every night, the shadow eats a slice of it, until it's nothing but this hollow rind. I feel the same way; with each day, I lose a little more of myself.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
Unlike the characters in the book, however, these different sorts of people don't seem to mix well. It is like the salad dressing Jessamyn makes: a little bit of olive oil, a squeeze of lemon, and some red wine vinegar. If whipped, they combine. But leave them to their own devices and they will sort themselves out again. I don't really understand this. When you have so many people, each one inevitably fascinating, why would you limit yourself to only those like you?"
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
Love isn't what you expect it to be. You imagine being drunk on happiness, but the truth is, you worry all the time. Is she ill? Hurt? Might she meet someone else? There's a moment when you realize you've gotten everything you wished for. And right on its heels is the understanding that this means you have so much more to lose.
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Jodi Picoult _ Off the Page
What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible?
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