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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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Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

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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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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your ...more

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Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

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What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many...more

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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.