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The Pact

by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 16, 2015 03:34AM

“Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

tags: atheist, children, father, infidel, kindless, pain, sleep, treatment, words

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“Hard choices are precious opportunities to become the distinctive people that we are.”
― Emma Albennett

tags: choice, choice-and-attitude, life

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“If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again—if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man—then you are ready for a walk.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking

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“I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: air, ari, aristotle, invisible

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“I never got to tell him again that he really was wrong, that miles didn’t matter, not if you loved someone. That borders and oceans weren’t obstacles, not for the mind. I wished I’d been able to tell him these things, because saying them out loud to someone real, instead of a mirror or a picture postcard, would have made them all the more convincing.”
― Emylia Hall, The Book of Summers

tags: distance, long-distance-relationships

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