Jodi Picoult: Doing

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“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“People change, but only if you give them room to do it.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“What's worse…?
The devil you don't know… or the devil you do?”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that thereno black or white. There are gradations of gray.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“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

“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

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

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things