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1 " I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. "
― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith
2 " My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct. "
3 " This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder "
4 " Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. "
5 " The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies "
6 " If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? "
7 " I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. "
8 " Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees. "
9 " You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong. "
10 " The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter. "
11 " I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil. "
12 " She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting. "
13 " People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen. "
14 " There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover. "
15 " I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do. "
16 " They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again. "
17 " Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together. "
18 " My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White) "
19 " The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over. "
20 " maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential. "