Jodi Picoult quotes - page 18

I only just found you, I can't lose you now. (Jodi Picoult)
There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found. View quote
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Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time. View quote
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Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit. View quote
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Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing. View quote
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Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it? View quote
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A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place. View quote
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When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you. View quote
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Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time".... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book. View quote
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I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last. View quote
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[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period. (Jodi Picoult)
You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to. View quote
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True love can break the most powerful curse. View quote
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I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. View quote
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For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. View quote
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so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction. View quote
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Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down. View quote
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A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it... You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough. View quote
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Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors? View quote
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You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them. View quote
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There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance. (Jodi Picoult)
No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill. View quote
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She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you. View quote
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead. View quote
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All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air. View quote
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