A ceramic bowl repaired with a gold seam, holding a small red thread spool on sage cloth.

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My Sister's Keeper · 2004

Jodi Picoult

You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Love isn't a reward for flawlessness. The speaker says people love each other despite imperfections, not because they've been erased. The claim is that real affection includes the flaws and keeps going anyway, rather than depending on someone being perfect.

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