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1 " In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.’ "
― Luanne Rice , Dance With Me
2 " Jane’s dream had ripped her heart from her chest, as if the past were a lion that could eat her alive. "
3 " Jane put her hand on the calendar, as if she could take those days right in through her skin, her pores, into her blood and bones, hold them forever. But time didn’t work that way. Time was all about the present. It was where you were and what you were doing, in any given moment, that gave life its meaning. "
4 " But her life on this earth had taught her this: that love, in the end, was all that mattered. Friends, families, suitors, husbands: Goodness abounded in all of them. "
5 " she’d looked it up and read the definition (“deprived of the possession or use of something; lacking something needed, wanted, or expected”) "
6 " liked the way Jane smiled at her—as if Jane was looking for and seeing the very best in Chloe. Not like teachers, always correcting you, trying to improve you, and not like parents, just waiting for you to do the next wrong thing, so they could shake their heads and let you know how disappointed they were in you. . . . "
7 " Jane seemed to just like her. She liked her without wanting anything in return: "
8 " without him—I wasn’t sure I could go on breathing. But I did.” “I know,” Sylvie said. “It was because I loved him,” Jane said. “And that’s what love does. It takes hold of you so hard . . . takes hold of your breath. Your heart, your pulse, your thoughts, everything. "
9 " Love doesn’t give you control—it takes control of you. "
10 " You make it sound mad,” Sylvie said. “As if it drives you crazy. "
11 " Had Jane felt that way this whole time? Back when it had all happened, Sylvie remembered feeling really angry at her: Sylvie had chosen Brown partly so she could be at college with her sister. Then Jane had gotten pregnant and ruined everything. "
12 " Violence merely increases hate . . . adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "
13 " Stars were caught in the tree branches. She wished she could keep stars in her pocket, just to give him every time she saw him. "
14 " Answers were temporary; the question was constant. Women knew that better than men, she thought. Maybe it had to do with the way moon took hold of their bodies, pulling the like the tides...In that way women learned that life was a mystery, and that something bigger than they were was in charge. "
15 " ...life was in the moment, and love was in the moment, where ever you happen to be. "
16 " Some apple varieties, such as Jonagold, Stayman, Winesap, and Mutsu, produced sterile pollen, and could never be used as pollenizers. Yet pollen from other varieties could be used to pollinate those pollen-sterile trees. Really, the honey bee did all the work. "
17 " time did heal all wounds. Well, not completely. But after a fashion. Time put a big Band-Aid on them. So that life could go on. "
18 " In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family. "
19 " Violence merely increases hate . . . adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ Dr. Martin Luther King, "
