Jodi Picoult quotes - page 19

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven. (Jodi Picoult)
Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be. View quote
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Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome. View quote
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eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you. View quote
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She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else. View quote
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What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is. View quote
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime. View quote
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Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning. View quote
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Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had. View quote
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People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel. View quote
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But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes? (Jodi Picoult)
anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information. View quote
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Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie. View quote
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Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not. View quote
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He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn't make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same. View quote
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Love makes life a little brighter. View quote
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We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be. View quote
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You have to understand what you're missing before you can really feel a loss. View quote
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How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever? View quote
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If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting. View quote
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An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology. (Jodi Picoult)
Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human. View quote
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People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more. View quote
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She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her. View quote
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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. View quote
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