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“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said.

My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.”

Jodi Picoult

“Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Any highway… they all take you to the same place, don't they?”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things