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21 " I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you. "
― Jodi Picoult , Mercy
22 " If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason. "
23 " Then you're the one." Allie blinked at him. "The one what?""The one who loves more." ... "You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone always puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. "
24 " What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? —William Carlos Williams, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower "
25 " It was tough to admit to yourself that someone else had more courage than you would in the same situation, or that it was possible to love someone in a way that you had not personally experienced. "
26 " If you forgive people enough, you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not--squatter's rights of the heart.-James Hamilton "
27 " she wondered if forgiving was any easier than forgetting "
28 " Virtual reality is the willing suspension of disbelief, "
29 " town. In the back of his "
30 " You simply could not define freedom to someone who did not realize they were caged. "