The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
Jodi PicoultThe Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
Jodi PicoultMemories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
Jodi PicoultI think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes youโve survived, or the minutes youโve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.
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