Jodi Picoult quotes - page 20

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer. (Jodi Picoult)
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. View quote
Jodi Picoult
People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. View quote
Jodi Picoult
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it? View quote
Jodi Picoult
Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true. View quote
Jodi Picoult
I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't. View quote
Jodi Picoult
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars. View quote
Jodi Picoult
If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. (Jodi Picoult)
Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly? View quote
Jodi Picoult
It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. View quote
Jodi Picoult
When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will. View quote
Jodi Picoult
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? View quote
Jodi Picoult
Lie to yourself until it's true. View quote
Jodi Picoult
That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous. View quote
Jodi Picoult
She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck. View quote
Jodi Picoult
People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. View quote
Jodi Picoult
How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war? (Jodi Picoult)
When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else. View quote
Jodi Picoult
That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. View quote
Jodi Picoult