Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 23)

“It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.
It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.”

“A bruise is how the body remembers it’s been wronged.”

“Leave it to a man to mess things up”

“what made you happy once might not make you happy now.”

“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”

“We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.”

“There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.”

“In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.”

“Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect.”

“If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.”

“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”

“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”

“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”

“If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.”

“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

“there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.”

“Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.”

“Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.”