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1 " Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. "
― Jodi Picoult , Second Glance
2 " Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit. "
3 " And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall "
4 " Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. "
5 " They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them. "
6 " Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. "
7 " Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step? "
8 " When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there. "
9 " I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time. "
10 " What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again? "
11 " Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. "
12 " I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall. "
13 " Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation. "
14 " Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time. "
15 " She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you. "
16 " Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not. "
17 " After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too. "
18 " History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. "
19 " The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive. "
20 " Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom. "
