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  1. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    This year in school she read Romeo and Juliet, and she told me pragmatically that Romeo was a wimp. He should have just taken Juliet and run away with her, swallowed his pride and worked at some medieval McDonald's. What about the poetry, I asked her. What about the tragedy? And Rebecca told me that that's all very well and good but it isn't the way things happen in real life.
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  2. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    What if one of us dies? What happens then?'I reached around and turned on the light to see the clock: 3:20 A.M. 'I suppose we'd remarry.''Just like that!' Jane exploded. She sat up in bed, facing away from me. 'You can't just pick a wife off a shelf.''Of course not. I just meant that if I happened to die young I'd want you to be happy.''How could I be happy without you? When you get married, you make the biggest decision of your life; you say you're going to spend eternity with one person. So what do you do if that person leaves? What do you do once you've already committed yourself?''What do you want me to do?' I asked.And Jane looked at me and said, 'I want you to live forever.
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  3. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    I kept hoping, silently, that you would want to save her like you hadn't been able to save yourself.
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  4. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in her eyes - like she had been violated in some way that broke her own image."
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  5. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?
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  6. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.
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  7. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship may be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better that the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life.
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  8. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    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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  9. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.
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  10. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.
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  11. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.
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  12. Jodi Picoult _ Songs of the Humpback Whale

    If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.
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