Jodi Picoult quotes

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. (Jodi Picoult)
When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. View quote
Jodi Picoult
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you? View quote
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Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it. View quote
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Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, ... It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to. View quote
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. View quote
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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? View quote
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What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next? View quote
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Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. View quote
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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? View quote
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You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. (Jodi Picoult)
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. View quote
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Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. View quote
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People change, but only if you give them room to do it. View quote
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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him. View quote
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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. View quote
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You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. View quote
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Life is not a plot; it's in the details. View quote
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The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place. View quote
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The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not. View quote
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Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off. (Jodi Picoult)
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it. View quote
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Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime. View quote
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I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. View quote
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Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it. View quote
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