Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 13)

“I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.”

“Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.”

“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”

“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”

“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”

“Everyone deserves a happy ending.”

“All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.”

“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”

“My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?”

“I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.”

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”

“If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.”

“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.”

“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.”

“That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”

“You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.”

“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?”