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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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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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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

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

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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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Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter w...more