“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
― Nineteen Minutes
― Nineteen Minutes
“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
― Mercy
― Mercy
“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”
― Perfect Match
― Perfect Match
“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
― Vanishing Acts
― Vanishing Acts
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