Pictures of You (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Isabelle Stein: main character - kills a woman in a car crash and gets involved with the survivors
• Charlie Nash: Another main character - pretty much gets everything wrong. Desperate to know what his wife, a suitcase and his young son were doing in a car three hours from home.
• Sam Nash: Charlie's son, young asthmatic boy.
• Luke: Isabelle's ex husband
• April Nash: Charlie's wife and Sam's Mom who is fleeing her life and who has a terrible secret
• Frank: Add a description of this character.
• Nora
• Michelle
• Billy Adams
• Archie Simpson
• Jane
• Pete
• Teddy
• Dave
• Ed
• Dora
• Mick
• Judy
• Fred
• Bill Thrommer
• Lora Jones
• Miss Horton
• Don
• Ellen
• Katie
• Lisa Jean Miller
• Andi
• Miss Patty
• Jason
• Nelson
• Lindy
• Miss Rivers
• Elaine
• Lucy
• Mr. Morgan
• Hank Williams
• Grace
• Chuck
• Christopher
• Marc Ryser

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• “Nothng stayed the same. That was a scientific fact. He wouldn't do anything to push things in a new direction, but he knew that one way or another, life eventually would.”

• “All you had of a person was what they showed you.”

• “You could think you understood things, but the truth was that you could neer see the full picture of someone else's life.”

• “It was as if this book was meant to be here, as if it were a message for him specifically.”

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• You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan’s shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.

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• How could you ever know what choice was the right one to make and what opportunity might be a mistake you would regret all your life?

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• Death made you look differently at the people you loved. Their real selves weren’t there to contradict your beliefs about them. The dead became a whole other person.

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• you could look at anything any number of ways and angles, so you might as well look at it the good way, the way that was most meaningful to you personally.

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• You couldn’t lose more of your life for another man, especially not for a man who won’t lose some of his life for you.”

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• You could think you understood things, but the truth was that you could never see the full picture of someone else’s life.

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• Be tortured by something and the world was sure to serve it up to you.

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• Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?

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• “Always remember,” she had told him. “When you’re grown up, I want you to take your girlfriend, or your wife, or boyfriend—whoever it is you love—and you make sure they know you so well they can read your mind. You don’t even have to tell them what you need, because they already know it. If they don’t—well, it isn’t love.”

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• All you had of a person was what they showed you. He thought of the way she was always playing with Sam, giving him this wild adventure of a life, making sure he knew he was someone special. Then he thought of Isabelle, quietly helping Sam with his photography. “Look inside,” she’d say to him. “Go deeper. See what’s right there in a new way. Find the magic of the real moment.”

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• Cape Cod
• New York City
• Boston
• Woodstock, NY

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Caroline Leavitt (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Goldenberg Fiction Award, second prize for portions of the novel.

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• Dewey: 813.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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• Leavittville: This is my website, with all kinds of extras attached to it!

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