Jodi Picoult quotes - page 22

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving. (Jodi Picoult)
There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. View quote
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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. View quote
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You can make it dark, but I can't make it light. View quote
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There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking. View quote
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There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against. View quote
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You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything. View quote
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But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it? View quote
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I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage. View quote
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Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way? View quote
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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. (Jodi Picoult)
i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive. View quote
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I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be. View quote
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God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle. View quote
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The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed. View quote
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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else. View quote
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You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here. View quote
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you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself. View quote
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When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world. View quote
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Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. View quote
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Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. (Jodi Picoult)
That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing. View quote
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Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else. View quote
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A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. View quote
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Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown." "But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat. View quote
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