Jodi Picoult quotes - page 6

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere. (Jodi Picoult)
If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it. View quote
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Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all. View quote
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Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do. View quote
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination. View quote
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Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore. View quote
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you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you? View quote
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We Pisces, we're a special breed. View quote
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Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice. View quote
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I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't. View quote
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... when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. (Jodi Picoult)
I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said. View quote
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If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever. View quote
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parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat. View quote
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I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw. View quote
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If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick. View quote
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I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there. View quote
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My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course. View quote
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It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind. View quote
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Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs? View quote
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You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it? (Jodi Picoult)
I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies. View quote
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Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's. View quote
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You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you. View quote
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What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought? View quote
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