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Perfect Match
Jodi Picoult
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”
“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.”
“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”
“You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.”
“You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.”
“Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.”
“You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.”
“As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.”
“We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.”
“But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?”
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