Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 22)

“And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it”

“Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.”

“I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.”

“She became whoever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

“How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?”

“What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?”

“A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.”

“it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.”

“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”

“It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.”

“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”

“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.”

“When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.”

“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.”

“What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget… that you forgot about me?”

“What's worse…?
The devil you don't know… or the devil you do?”

“Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.”

“Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning?

A: Unfertilized”