How beautiful and horrible life is, Hema thought; too horrible to simply call tragic. Life is worse than tragic." p 108

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...no money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit." p 354

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That's the funny thing about America - the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others." p 405

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

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it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive.
Memory." p 380

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Mots clés storytelling



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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533

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Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or flea that lived on the bodies of men. If...there was a raising of the dead, then a child would be sure to see that its parents were awakened.

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Mots clés children



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When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...

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Mots clés life-lessons



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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

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Mots clés medicine twins cutting-for-stone



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I realized if something happens to him, it happens to me, too. If I love myself, I love him, for we are one. That makes it a risk worth taking for me - it wouldn't be for anyone else, unless they loved him.

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