Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 25)

“Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore”

“you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?”

“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”

“We Pisces, we're a special breed.”

“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”

“I believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.”

“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

“We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.”

“Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.”

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

“Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?”

“She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.”

“… when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”

“But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?”

“She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.”