A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
Jodi Picoult
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
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Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
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Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
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The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.
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No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
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