Jodi Picoult: Someone (page 3)

“What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.”

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

“A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes… And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.”

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else…”

“If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?”

“Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.”

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.”

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”

“No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.”