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41 " These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle
42 " 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. "
43 " At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be. "
44 " Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence? "
45 " The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray. "
46 " Because the more you changed, the less of you there was. "
47 " Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to. "
48 " and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself. "
49 " What Trixie wanted, most of all, what she couldn't have - to go back to being the kind of girl who worried about things like science tests and whether any college would admit her, instead of being the kind of girl everyone worried about. "
50 " What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away. "
51 " ...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope. "
52 " We are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts we can't become. "
53 " DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought. "
54 " Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable. "
55 " Just because you choose to leave a place did not mean that you could escape taking it with you. A man and a woman who lived together long enough might swap traits, until they found parts of themselves in each other. Jettison a personality and you just might find it taking up residence in the heart of the person you loved most. "
56 " These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences. "
57 " Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime. "
58 " A villain let your creativity out of its cage. "
59 " How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and live with the choice you made? "
60 " She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going. "