Abnegation Quote by Jodi Picoult

“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?”

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But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

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“The age wasn't as important as the milestones.”

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All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of…

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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.…

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“no wonder you left." Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.”

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Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.

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