Sunday, December 22, 2013

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

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People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

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But love wasn’t about sacrifice, and it wasn’t about falling short of someone’s expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else’s life would not have been as rich without us here.


(Handle with Care, Jodi Picoult)

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