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The Jodi Picoult Collection #3 is a compilation of three distinct novels. 'Vanishing Acts' explores themes of identity and family secrets. 'The Tenth Circle' delves into the consequences of cyberbullying. 'Nineteen Minutes' examines the aftermath of a school shooting and its impact on the community.
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“It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.”
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“The ideas choose me, not the other way around.”
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“There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.”
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“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”
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“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”
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“I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.”
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“Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.”
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“It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.”
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“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”
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“If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.”
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“If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.”
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“What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?”
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“What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.”
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“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”
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“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”
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“I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
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“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”
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“If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.”
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“I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.”
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“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”
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“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”
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“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.”
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“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”
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“newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas”
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“I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be.”
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“Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.”
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“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
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“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”
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“...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”
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“by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.”
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“i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.”
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“you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?”
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“Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.”
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“In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.”
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“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”
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“For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.”
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“It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.”
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“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”
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“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
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“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”
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“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”
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“We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.”
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“There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.”
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“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”
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“Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.”
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“What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.”
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“You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”
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“what made you happy once might not make you happy now.”
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“The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.”
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“How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.”
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