Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 28)

“There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”

“You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.”

“Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.”

“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”

“Jacoblike a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.”

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital… Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”

“What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?”

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.”

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

“Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?”

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

“Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.”

“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

“You can have the best intentions, but the moment there’s a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.”

“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”