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My Sister's Keeper is a 2009 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Jason Patric, and Alec Baldwin. Based on Jodi Picoult's 2004 novel of the same name, on June 26, 2009 the film was released to cinemas in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.

„It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.“
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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„No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.“
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Variant: Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
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„do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?“
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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„Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.“
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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„i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive“
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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„love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.“
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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„You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.“
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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„something is always falling apart in me.“
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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