Jodi Picoult: Want

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“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy

“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

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

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

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

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“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.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

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

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf