and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
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SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows aro... NICOLE KRAUSS Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL If he played in a system where he had to constantly have his back to the basket, he would not have b... DAVE ROGERS Maybe I’m not the hero to her I've always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she... COLLEEN HOOVER He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea... CASSANDRA CLARE Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That maybe it couldn't but he ... EDGAR GUEST He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage and a firm hope that h... DAVID WESTIN We must take arms each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fi... RAY BRADBURY Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... SARAH J. MAAS he called you a hoe cuz he couldnt stop thinking of you with someone else and that scared him he cal... WOW Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun. TESSA EMILY HALL When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with hi... THOMAS F. MONTELEONE We knew that he might not get the assist, but he would probably pass it to the guy who would set it ... JAMIE DIXON I think if this man would have had an opportunity to meet my brother, he would never have had the op... MARCIA BYRDSONG She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under... 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MARCELLA PIPER Since he knew things at the beginning, maybe at the end he knew things too. That we had gone as far ... HILARY THAYER HAMANN He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. S... SHAYNA VARADEAUX She was reminiscent of a first autumn leaf, patiently waiting to surrender herself to the cooling ea... LAUREN VALENCIA If they knew it was that valuable, and that important, they would say, 'Maybe we should find another... RICHARD ESTRADA Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better th... CHARLES DICKENS He's very easygoing and friendly, someone you would like immediately. He knows how to explain to the... LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF Kelly remained silent about her abuse. No one knew of it until after she committed suicide. If she c... JODY JOHNSON No man really knows how to live if he did, he would never die. VIKRANT PARSAI When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live,... SUE MONK KIDD He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them
to live. MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE If he was being burned, he would have cried out. He would yell out and let them know he was in pain.... LINDA HARRIS I even have a funny notion that if I do die, maybe Peeta will be allowed to live. Not as a free pers... SUZANNE COLLINS
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Maybe that's beause it's all a... JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a... JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul... JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ... JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?" We... JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't... JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. JODI PICOULT The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ... JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ... JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru... JODI PICOULT You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin... JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m... JODI PICOULT Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it... JODI PICOULT Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ... JODI PICOULT On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ... JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s... JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT