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's choice that makes us human.”

“My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.”

“I’d much rather pretend I’m
somewhere else, and any time I open
the pages of a book, that happens.”

“I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”

“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”

“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

“Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald”

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

“I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.”

“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

“You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.”

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”

“There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”