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.”

“It takes two people to make a friendship work”

“Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.”

“From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.
Darkness, you know, is relative.”

“Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?”

“Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.”

“if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.”

“There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character… Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”

“Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.”

“Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.”

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

“I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.”

“… when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”

“Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.”

“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.”

“Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.”

“You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.”

“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”

“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”

“They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?”

“I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.”

“Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle”

“It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.”

“Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?”

“By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.”

“I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.”

“I'm weird.
Everyone says so.”

“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”

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