Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me"I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back."But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky. To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her."
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"Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me"I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back."But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky. To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served causedmultiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?"
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"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, 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"
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it"
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?"
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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