Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 26)

“If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.”

“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”

“Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.”

“God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.”

“I only just found you, I can't lose you now”

“There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”

“parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.”

“Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.”

“Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.”

“This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.”

“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

“When this is over… we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.”

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”

“Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…. they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.”

“I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.”