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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

— Jodi Picoult Nineteen Minutes (2007)

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The enemy was always supposed to be an outsider, not the kid who was sitting right next to you.

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How could you change a boy’s bedding every week and feed him breakfast and drive him to the orthodontist and not know him at all?

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When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

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