Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
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"When it rains," her father said "it pours."
"Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank."
"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."
"And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time."
"The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store."
"A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order."
"You'd be surprised." Charlie said."You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit.""What the hell is Limp Bizkit?"
"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"
"I've got a Don Baylor," J.T. said."California sucks this year."Ralph snickered. "I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street."
"So what do you think the physical effect was?"Roman Laughed. "Buddy," he said, "she was tripping."
"Words, he knew, could scar."
"To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed."
"What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care."
"every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter."
"I think we deserve a happily-ever-after.""If anyone ever did, it's us."
"He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips."
"She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone."
"It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups."
"The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin."
"All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down."
"McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming."
"You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."
"Raw love, like raw heart-ache, could blindside you."
"Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again."
"Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you."