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I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who lov...more

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I sigh. “But if you’d talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . .” My voice trails off.“Then you wouldn’t feel quite so crazy?” Oliver asks gently. “C...more

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Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

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But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it...more

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No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit o...more

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Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to ...more

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But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

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I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

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Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike."What do you mean?"Your daughter...more

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The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies