Jodi Picoult quotes - page 17

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget. (Jodi Picoult)
A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating. View quote
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I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall. View quote
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There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher. View quote
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be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. View quote
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maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix- not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential. View quote
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You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back. View quote
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If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take? View quote
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You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him. View quote
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? View quote
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It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying. (Jodi Picoult)
As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds. View quote
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. View quote
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I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend. View quote
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Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. View quote
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When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. View quote
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How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen? View quote
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When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right. View quote
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We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash. View quote
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Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen. View quote
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She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. (Jodi Picoult)
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone. View quote
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She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life. View quote
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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. View quote
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Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through. View quote
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