Jodi Picoult quotes - page 11

I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. (Jodi Picoult)
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. View quote
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All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return. View quote
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She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind. View quote
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Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead. View quote
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Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way. View quote
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If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost? View quote
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you. View quote
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Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay? View quote
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People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself. View quote
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You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong. (Jodi Picoult)
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey. View quote
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There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? View quote
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Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. View quote
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Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself. View quote
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It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't. View quote
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This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder. View quote
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When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance. View quote
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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. View quote
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When she wanted to escape her life, she read books. View quote
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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires. (Jodi Picoult)
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start. View quote
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But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like. View quote
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I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. View quote
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You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control. View quote
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