Jodi Picoult: Trending quotes (page 30)

“We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.”

“Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?”

“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”

“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”

“You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.”

“If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.”

“Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.”

“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

“You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'

How?'

Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.”

“An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology”

“I love you"…"But I made you cry.”

“Just because you leave someone doesn’t mean you ever let them go.”

“I'd do it all over again.”