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“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“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.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“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 book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“something is always falling apart in me.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.”

Jodi Picoult

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
Source: Handle with Care

“for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“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.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf