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1 " You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
2 " I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same. "
3 " I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. "
4 " Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. "
5 " To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. "
― Bill Wilson , My Sister's Keeper
6 " He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable "
7 " The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to. "
8 " See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left 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. "
9 " You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? "
10 " Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. "
― Jean-Paul Sartre , My Sister's Keeper
11 " Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression. "
― Amit Ray , My Sister's Keeper
12 " See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it "
13 " The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say. "
― Kahlil Gibran , My Sister's Keeper
14 " When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires "
15 " 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 mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead. "
16 " Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest? "
17 " Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him. "
18 " The most important lesson that we're supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality) "
― Brian Welch , My Sister's Keeper
19 " well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. "
20 " Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob. "
― Charlotte Brontë , My Sister's Keeper