Jodi Picoult quotes - page 9

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get. (Jodi Picoult)
I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting. View quote
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I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry. View quote
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound. View quote
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Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been? View quote
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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. View quote
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So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream. View quote
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You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake. View quote
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A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you. View quote
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Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly? View quote
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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? (Jodi Picoult)
You know someone's right for you when the things they don'tto say are even more important than the things they do. View quote
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Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant... it is always painful. View quote
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You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. View quote
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When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. View quote
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What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match? View quote
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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris. View quote
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Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong. View quote
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He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever. View quote
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You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals. View quote
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. (Jodi Picoult)
But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question? View quote
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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable. View quote
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Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course. View quote
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Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? View quote
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