Quotes from work

My Sister's Keeper

“You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is”

“Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.”

“It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.”

“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”

“do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?”

“Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.”

“i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive”

“Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.”

“love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”

“I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code… You don't love someone because they're perfect… You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”

“I… understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.”

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

“Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.”

“Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.”

“They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.”

“don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.”