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21 " What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it? "
― Jodi Picoult , Perfect Match
22 " if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them. "
23 " I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing. "
24 " Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup "
25 " Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else. "
26 " ...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty. "
27 " How far can a person go... and still live with himself. "
28 " the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh. "
29 " After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities. "
30 " Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles. "
31 " Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready. "
32 " And he wonders if maybe Nina is right; if a superhero is nothing but an ordinary person who believes that she cannot fail. "
33 " You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore. "
34 " The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my weight accelerates, head-over-heels. Then I think, falling is the first step in learning how to fly. "
35 " Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer. "
36 " What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law? "
37 " The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over. "
38 " We had been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash. "
39 " I know every line of his face. The one that was carved the first year of our marriage, by laughing so often. The one that was born of worries the year he left the contracting companies to go into business for himself. The one developed from focusing hard on Nathaniel as he took his first steps, said his first words. "
40 " There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to. "