Jodi Picoult citations

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“Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillon. Un tel visage ne peut pas être celui de quelqu'un qui meurt à petit feu. Je ne la connais que depuis deux ans. Mais si vous preniez chaque souvenir, chaque instant, si vous les étiriez bout à bout, ça ferait une éternité.”

“Je suis devenu pompier parce que je voulais sauver des gens. Mais j'aurais dû être plus précis. J'aurais dû citer des noms.”

“Vous n'aimez pas quelqu'un parce qu'il est parfait. Vous les aimez malgré le fait qu'ils ne le sont pas.”

“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.”

“Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.”

“Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees”

“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”

“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”

“The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.”

“something is always falling apart in me.”

“Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.”

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”

“Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you”

“The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.”