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“Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets, lies, stories. We all tell them. Sometimes, because we hope to entertain. Sometimes, because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."
To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“It takes two people to make a friendship work”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.
Darkness, you know, is relative.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character… Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller