This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.
A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.
On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.
The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
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