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“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

This novel delves into the profound emotional and legal issues surrounding a family dealing with a terminally ill child. The story follows the struggles of a young girl forced to confront the consequences of her parents' decision to use her own organs to save her sister's life. more

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Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is an American best-selling author known for her emotionally rich and engaging novels. Her works often revolve around family, legal, and moral dilemmas, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

“in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved Praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough Praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us Praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.”

Giving Years Wells Heart Reason Enough Speak Felt Rooms Months Window Praise Suicide Breathing Tunnels Knots

Author:Adrienne Rich

“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!”

Ifs Hope Imagination Fire Magic Praying Tales Golden Liars Dreamer My Imagination Beans Buyers Pretender Flax

Author:Shel Silverstein

“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away”

Humor Funny Trouble Doors Laughter Hearing

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”

Writing Two Reactions Tasting Delayed

Author:Anais Nin

“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”

Talent Size Confusion Paychecks

Author:Marlon Brando

“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.”

Years I Can Sometimes Moments Remember Night Sound Voice Sleep Sea Six Towns Corners Twelve

Author:Dylan Thomas

“The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.”

Moments Next Conditions Subjects Complexes Hazards

Book:Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides, Their Moons and Their Changes, the Seasons as it is with Them, Their Eclipses and Equinoxes, as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempers

Source: Ladies Almanack: Showing Their Signs and Their Tides, Their Moons and Their Changes, the Seasons as it is with Them, Their Eclipses and Equinoxes, as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempers

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