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.”

“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”

“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”

“If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.”

“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

“there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.”

“Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.”

“Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.”

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

“A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.”

“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”

“There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.”

“Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.”

“be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.”

“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”

“maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.”

“I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.”

“You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.”

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

“You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him”

“Men. You can't live with them… and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.”

“I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too.. but I've never had that kind of courage.”

“We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?”

“I’m the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.”

“I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code… You don't love someone because they're perfect… You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“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.”

“It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.”

“As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.”

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”