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 can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?”

“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”

“We Pisces, we're a special breed.”

“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”

“I believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.”

“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

“We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.”

“Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.”

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

“Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?”

“Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.”

“She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.”

“… when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”

“But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?”

“She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.”

“I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.”

“If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.”

“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”

“Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.”

“God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.”

“I only just found you, I can't lose you now”

“There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”

“parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.”

“Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.”