Jodi Picoult quotes - page 4

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience. (Jodi Picoult)
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? View quote
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To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself. View quote
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It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there. View quote
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They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out? View quote
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when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw. View quote
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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. View quote
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But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. View quote
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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life. View quote
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What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again? View quote
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Marina sighs. "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. (Jodi Picoult)
I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live. View quote
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What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too. View quote
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We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly. View quote
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If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related. View quote
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We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any. View quote
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Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken. View quote
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You can miss a person you've never known. View quote
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This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them. View quote
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Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people. View quote
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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come. (Jodi Picoult)
The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it. View quote
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Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together. View quote
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she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them. View quote
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I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind. View quote
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