My Sister’s Keeper
Important Quotations Explained
1. “See, unlike the rest of the free world, I didn’t get here by
accident. And if your parents have you for a reason then that reason better
exist. Because once it’s gone, so are you.”
2. “Although I am nine months pregnant, although I have had plenty of
time to dream, I have not really considered the specifics of this child. I have
thought of this daughter only in terms of what she will be able to do for the
daughter I already have…Then again, my dreams for her are no less exalted; I
plan for her to save her sister’s life.”
3. “‘She is dying Sara. She will die, either tonight or
tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we’re really lucky. You heard what Dr.
Chance said. Arsenic’s not a cure. It just postpones what’s coming.’
My eyes fill with tears. ‘But I love her,’ I say, because that is reason
enough.”
4. “Maybe it’s because Jesse isn’t all that different from me,
choosing fire as his medium, needing to know that he could command at least one
uncontrollable thing.”
5. “‘The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as
doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that
allow us to sleep at night—because morals are more important than ethics, and
love is more important than law.’”
