“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”

—  Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

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