Jodi Picoult quotes - page 12

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted. (Jodi Picoult)
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. View quote
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Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it. View quote
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What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty. View quote
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How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? View quote
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I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you. View quote
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If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason. View quote
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Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you. View quote
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do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses? View quote
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I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. View quote
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A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. (Jodi Picoult)
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. View quote
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Everyone deserves a happy ending. View quote
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All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down. View quote
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The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending. View quote
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My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn't all about me? View quote
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I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer. View quote
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. View quote
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If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it. View quote
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story. View quote
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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. (Jodi Picoult)
No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. View quote
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You build a wall to keep something unwanted out ... or to hold something precious in. View quote
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Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me. View quote
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams. View quote
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