Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 17)

“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.”

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

“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”

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

“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.”

“something is always falling apart in me.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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