That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. β¨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules, p.107, Simon and Schuster
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- Because the more you changed, the less of you there was. β¨ Jodi Picoult (2012). The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes, p.802, Simon and Schuster
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