Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect
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"It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding."
"There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do."
"males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome."
"You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me."
"In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did."
"Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being."
"I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else."
"because in the past words have only driven them apart."
"The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera."
"They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them."