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21 " Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle
22 " Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget? "
23 " it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. "
24 " But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path. "
25 " There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future. "
26 " 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. "
27 " Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice. "
28 " Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie. "
29 " She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime. "
30 " She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else. "
31 " No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill. "
32 " You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside. "
33 " Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant. "
34 " Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear. "
35 " Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else? "
36 " There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them. "
37 " May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value. "
38 " What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other "
39 " There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer. "
40 " We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question. "