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“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left in this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.”
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. “
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
“He insisted that stars were people who were so well loved they were traced in constellations, to live forever.”
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
“There should be a statute of limitation of grief. A rule book that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after forty-two days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass—-if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it is okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
“It turns out that after all these years I have spent anticipating a moment like this, I am completely at loss like coloring the sky in with a crayon;there is no language for grief this big.”
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
“The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society,we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night—because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.”
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
“and suddenly I knew what became of all those lost balloons: they were the loves that slipped out of our fists; the blank eyes that rose in every night sky”
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
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