Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 29)

“People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away?"
I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.”

“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

“Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.”

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”

“But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?”

“anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.”

“If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"

When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot.

They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.”

“Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.”

“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.”

“Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.”

“I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.”

“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”

“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that
doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”