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Book: Leaving Time
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
He shrugged. 'I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room--but eventually, you learn to live with it.' Somehow, I thought, elephants had taken it a step further. They didn't grimace every time they entered the room and saw that couch. They said, 'remember how many good memories we had here?' And they sat, for just a little while, before moving elsewhere.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
When Javert finally realized that Valjean had something he himself didn't-mercy-did he shrug and find a new obsession, like knitting or Game of Thrones? No. Because without Valjean to hate, he didn't know who he was anymore.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds." "I'm sorry." He shrugged. "I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it."
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
Suicides, almost by definition, are all ghosts - stuck earthbound because they are desperate to apologize to their loved ones or because they are so ashamed of themselves.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
I've always been a loner, and I've never really felt like I belong here. I'm like one of those women who read Jane Austen obsessively and still hope that Mr. Darcy might show up at the door. Or the Civil War reenactors, who growl at each other on battlefields now spotted with baseball fields and park benches. I'm the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
I know that some neurologists think that autistic kids have brain synapses so close together and firing in such quick succession that they cause hyperawareness; that one of the reasons children on the spectrum rock or stim is to help them focus instead of having all sensations bombard them at once. I think clairvoyance isn't really all that much different. In all probability, neither is mental illness.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
And I thought-not for the first time-that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours. Today, when I get to Hartwick
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Jodi Picoult _ Leaving Time
Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there.
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