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"And if we -- like the Fitzgeralds -- don't know what the right decision is, then the person who has to have the final say is the person whose body it is ... even if that's a thirteen-year-old" (Campbell, 407).

"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" (Kate, 422).

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact they’re not” (384)

“There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones” (Brian 379).

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.” (Julia, 368)

“When she turned I grabbed her shoulders and I kissed her. I took the things I couldn’t bring myself to say, and poured them into her.
There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it’s the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It’s far easier than telling ourselves the truth.” (216).