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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Jodi Picoult
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I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Par Jodi Picoult

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

Par Jodi Picoult

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

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When you love someone you let them take care of you.

Par Jodi Picoult

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Par Jodi Picoult

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

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You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

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I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

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A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

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It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.

Par Jodi Picoult