Jodi Picoult Quotes

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“I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.”

“They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?”

“It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”

“When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.”

“Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.”

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”

“Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

“The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.”

“Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.”

“And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”

“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”

“You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?… A plan.”

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

“Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.”

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.”

“What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.”

“I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.”

“Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.”

“What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.”

“Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.”

“I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.”

“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”

“What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?”

“Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.”

“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”

“He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.”

“You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.”

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.”

“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

Love isn't the only word that fails.

Hate does, too.”

“If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.”

“We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.”

“If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.”

“you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.”

“We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.”

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”

“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”

“You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

“Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.”

“Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.”

“What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.”

“Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice”

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”

“You can miss a person you've never known.”

“Just so you know, when they say "Once upon
a time”… they’re lying”

“This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.”

“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”