Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never wanted to actually hear the words out loud, because then you'd have to admit to yourself that you'd wanted proof, and that somehow made you baser, less civilized.
Jodi Picoult
When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
heaven
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not
perfect spite fact love
There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
worth illogical part saving
The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.
world day pretending
Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.
spirit day judgement souls tree god
Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else?
falling love
As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.
people hurt hell stop act love
funny proof satisfaction knowing words vengeance hear made thing
It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't.
miracle
The thing that most people didn't understand.. Was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone, forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.
accident people rape difference understand alive forever victim thing
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
solitude people enjoy world loneliness disappointment matter loner
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
death rest heart forever inside
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
life heartbreak fall pieces
Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
marriage works ride inequality hard things love
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