Jodi Picoult quotes - page 23

What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead? (Jodi Picoult)
A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion. View quote
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It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly. View quote
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I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code... You don't love someone because they're perfect... You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. View quote
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I believe in Hell... but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once. View quote
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Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking. View quote
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You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go. View quote
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until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one. View quote
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I'd do it all over again. View quote
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. View quote
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Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. (Jodi Picoult)
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. View quote
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A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations. View quote
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As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening. View quote
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You can't edit a blank page. View quote
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If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? View quote
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Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires. ~Brian Fitzgerald. View quote
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I don't know. But Iknow that I'm at the stage of my life where I want, not. I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen. View quote
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It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. View quote
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There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it. View quote
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And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. (Jodi Picoult)
If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details. View quote
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If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. View quote
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This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out. View quote
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If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view. View quote
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