Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 11)

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

“You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.”

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”

“There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”

“This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder”

“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”

“When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires”

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

“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?”

“That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy… Just holier-than-thous.”