Stranger With My Face by Lois Duncan

This week the main character found out that she was adopted and had a twin sister.  Because of the way the plot unfolded, in that she found out for herself, it shows an underlying message of how important it is to tell the truth.  When Laurie realizes this information, it takes her interests away from the family, because when you keep a secret, there's always a reason you're keeping it.  Laurie uses this against her parents claiming that if they loved her equally as much as her siblings, they wouldn't struggle to tell her that she was adopted, because it wouldn't be something they would need to hide.  When someone finds out the truth without hearing it from you, it take the exact opposite effect of what keeping that secret was intended to do.

Telling the truth is really important because it saves relationships, even if at the time it hurts, it's worth it in the long run.  However, this book not only teaches how valuable the truth is in this section, it also shows that if there is true love present, like between Laurie and her family, it can overcome even the toughest situations.

Stranger With My Face by Lois Duncan

"I felt the way you do when you are moving through a dream and the most impossible things are happening and you are accepting them as normal."

Sometimes things in your life come on as impossible or damagingly ridiculous in the sense that if you believe them, consequence after consequence would follow.  Sometimes these impossible things however, are what keep us living, moving, breathing.  Relating to Laurie, the main character, in this way of problems building up makes it refreshing to read this quote.  If life went on perfectly, normal would be boring, and there would be no trust in the world.  But being able to accept the impossible is how humans, or maybe just I, have learned to live. 

In Laurie's case, her impossible is literally impossible, what with her dead sister coming back into her life, but everyone has their own mini-impossible scenarios that continue to cause this harm, these consequences and problems in our lives. 

This line in this instance was super literal, but for me, it's poetic-ness stood out.  We accept what we want to believe, what we think we deserve.  I want to believe the impossible.