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March 13, 2013 7:00pm UTC

Don't laugh; what I miss most is talking to you. I imagine running into you in a busy market, even though I don't go to the market. And we decide to have lunch and we talk over margaritas; and then we walk back to where you are staying and we talk some more, and we talk in the hotel lobby and we keep talking until the moon is high in the sky and the bellhops change shifts and the night manager kicks us out.
I want to talk to you, but I don't have the slightest idea of what we would have to say.
Jodi Piccoult ~ Mercy

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March 13, 2013 6:56pm UTC

Other than that, he didn't see how the punishment would differ; a life sentence that made the limits of your world a prison, or the prison your world became when your sentence was simply to live.
Jodi Piccoult - Mercy

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January 1, 2013 9:07pm UTC

Someone I know commit suicide this morning.. He's my friend's older sister's ex... i know it seems like a distance knowing but he was a star football player, senior, for our highschool... he used to play kickball with me and my friends at my neighbors house... he was popular, never showed any signs of depression, just a great kid.. I don't have much inspiration in this but... it hurts so bad when it's someone you know...

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December 31, 2012 12:36am UTC

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's because it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end.
But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.
~19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult

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December 8, 2012 12:03am UTC

He was wearing a T-shirt that said FULL FRONTAL NERDITY, and his corn silk hair kept falling into his eyes. "But don't you wish it could be true?" I asked him. "Don't you wish love was so strong it could come back to haunt you?"
I told him the story of my mother, who one night had woken up at 3:14am with a mouth full of violet petals and the scent of roses so thick in the air that she could not breathe. An hour later she was roused by a phone call: her own mother, a flourist by trade, had died of a ehart attack at 3:14am. "Science can't answer everything," I told Henry. "It doesn't explain love."
"Actually it does," he told me. "There have been all kinds of studies done. People are more attracted to people with symmetrical features, for example. And symmetrical men smell better to women. Also, people who have similar genetic traits are attracted to each other. It probably has something to do with evolution."
I burst out laughing. "That is awful," I said. "That is the most unromantic thing I've ever heard."
"I don't think so..."
"Oh, really. Say something that will sweep me off my feet," I demanded.
Henry looked at me for a long moment, until I could feel my head growing lighter and dizzier. "I think you might be perfectly symmetrical," he said.
Emma, House Rules

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December 7, 2012 11:56pm UTC

It is hard for me to explain why it is so difficult to look into people's eyes. Imagine what it would be like if someone sliced your chest with a scalpel and rummaged around inside you, squeezing your heart and lungs and kidneys. That level of copmlete invasion is what it feels like when I make eye contact. the reason I choose not to look at people is that I don't think it's polite to rifle through someone's thoughts, and the eyes might as well be glass windows, they're that transparent.
Jacob, House Rules

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December 7, 2012 11:53pm UTC

But then, it's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
House Rules

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December 7, 2012 11:51pm UTC

The women who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.
House Rules

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December 7, 2012 11:49pm UTC

This is where I go, when I go:
It's a room with no windows and no doors, and walls that are thin enough for me to see and hear everything but too thick to break through.
I'm there, but I'm not there.
I am pounding to be let out, but nobody can hear me.
This is where I go, when I go:
To a country where everyone's face looks different from mine, and the language is the act of not speaking, and noise is everywhere in the air we breathe. I am doing what the Romans do in Rome; I am trying to communicate, but no one has bothered to tell me that these people cannot hear.
This is where I go, when I go:
To the place where my body becomes a piano, full of black keys only - the sharps and the flats, when everyone knows that to play a song other people want to hear, you need some white keys.
This is why I come back:
To find those white keys.
Jacob, House Rules by Jodi Picoult

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October 11, 2012 4:46pm UTC

And we don't even know where we're going,
But I'm feeling with you and
I"m
Glowing.
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ben23brocks
posted a quote
June 16, 2012 5:19pm UTC

He was a boy,
She was a girl.
Can I make it anymore obvious?

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June 6, 2012 9:13pm UTC

♥
Phoebe: Oh, I can't I have to take my grandmother to the vet.
♥
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ben23brocks
posted a quote
June 6, 2012 9:08pm UTC

Please just don't play with me
My Paper Heart will bleed,
This wait for destiny won't do,
Be with me please,
I beseech you
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May 29, 2012 6:10pm UTC

Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking
when you fall, everyone stands
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ben23brocks
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May 29, 2012 6:06pm UTC

20
seconds of courage
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love that movie.(WeBoughtAZoo)

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May 26, 2012 11:06pm UTC

♥
*Joey's conversation with Phoebe's little brother*
Joey: Think about it! You're 18, she's 44. When you're 36, she's gonna be 88!
♥
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May 26, 2012 11:03pm UTC

♥
Monica: So how was the big anniversary dinner?
Rachel: It didn't happen...
Monica Oo hoo hoo!
♥
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ben23brocks
posted a quote
May 26, 2012 10:57pm UTC

*little sister Emily is scared of a movie*
Mom: Oh come here sweety it's alright!
Me: It's real Emily, every last bit of it.
I'm so mean (:

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ben23brocks
posted a quote
May 16, 2012 10:50pm UTC

girls: "i would never like a boy for his looks!"
girls: "omg i love justin bieber and 1D and Jonas Brothers and BTR and Jesse McCartney and every guy except for the sweet guys!!!"
real guys: "wait what"

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ben23brocks
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May 6, 2012 9:52pm UTC

♥
*Rachel: Hey Chandler, Monica just broke my seashell lamp.
Chandler: Neat. I'm gonna die alone.
Rachel: ...okay you win.
♥
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