Jodi Picoult quotes - page 21

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong. (Jodi Picoult)
Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made. View quote
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain. View quote
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Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they're lying. View quote
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This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story. View quote
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Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true? View quote
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Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees. View quote
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I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life. View quote
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You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me. View quote
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You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book. View quote
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Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before. (Jodi Picoult)
If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning? View quote
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It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you. View quote
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This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns. View quote
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Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. View quote
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The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit. View quote
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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing. View quote
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What you had could never make up for what you'd lost. View quote
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Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness. View quote
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There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain. View quote
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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. (Jodi Picoult)
No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. View quote
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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. View quote
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I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first. View quote
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If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. View quote
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