I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

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JODI PICOULT Giving you a second chance only to prove you that I was wrong from the first.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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ANGIE THOMAS

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ADAM BALDWIN

I believe in giving people a second chance.
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ANTHONY CANNON

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MOLLY MCADAMS

The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never k...
LISA KLEYPAS

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Quit telling me that "you haven't done anything wrong." Most people waste their lives trying to do n...
JEFF DIXON-TERROR IN THE KINGDOM

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always &...
TYLER PERRY

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ELIZABETH GILBERT

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ANITA VAN

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JOHN CLEESE

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BRYAN CRANSTON

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
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JESSICA SORENSEN

Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

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PETE HAMILL

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ROGER STAUBACH

a woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman
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MARC ANDREESSEN The more I looked into the breed, the more interesting they became. They're fun-loving, they love th...
ANNE PAIGE The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her?
SAMANTHA VAN LEER

But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
“Make me”, I replied.
ERICH SEGAL

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BRETT FAVRE

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CHIP AMBRES

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JASON MATHEWS Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness ...
SANDHYA JANE

In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "...
C. JOYBELL C. Do you or a family member take numerous medications on a daily basis? Do you ever wonder if the drug...
AMY COLLINS

I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of m...
JODI PICOULT

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to som...
JODI PICOULT

Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or m...
GAYLE FORMAN Tomorrow was my second chance to make things right but it never came. I’m sorry I never treasur...
OLIVIA CUNNING We just need to find a way to make things go right. It's all about us doing the right things. We hav...
BRANDON STOCKTON People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of ...
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LEWIS N. ROE But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an acc...
MARTINA BOONE People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot...
RIVER PHOENIX The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's so sad and painful for our family. He didn't get a chance to graduate from pre-school. Our fami...
JACKIE WILLIAMS A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our pe...
J. K. SIMMONS I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. ...
GARY BURGHOFF Do you remember that politician who died with the fishnet tights and all that? Aw, his poor family. ...
BILLY CONNOLLY Wrong is wrong though everyone is doing it. Right is always right though no one is doing it. Be alar...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You have a young girl, the owner's daughter, doing what family wants her to do, and an immigrant try...
AUDAY ARABO I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able t...
MICHAEL EALY My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion r...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES All that mattered to me was to right the wrong and save my family.
BRANDON SMALL When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.
DELTA GOODREM Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. All of my pets are strays that have been saved from animal shelters and, just like your pets, my ani...
GREGORY POPOVICH You can only give yourself a chance to find right things when you stop chasing wrong things.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I love what I do. People depend on me for their livelihoods. But I'm not married to the business. I ...
RAY JACQUES Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel...
KARIN SLAUGHTER It is much better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right, because when errors are co...
RUSSELL ACKOFF She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
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"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...
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I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

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I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

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