Variant: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Source: Handle with Care

“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

“My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together?

Bread, of course.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it… You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“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

“The apple… came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were
all the same, that were do-overs?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“You can't be real," Delilah murmurs.
"Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“Love is not an equation… It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules