There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
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Jodi Picoult
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I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?

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He's lighter than you'd think, like whatever was inside him was used up long ago.

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I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by almost everyone.

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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

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She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before.

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Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

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The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't

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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.

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If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

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I think you can love a person too much.

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What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

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