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If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
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Jodi Picoult |
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In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?"
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Jodi Picoult |
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But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
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Jodi Picoult |
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think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.
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I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown." "But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat."
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Jodi Picoult |
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May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because you can always count on a book to stay the same. EVerything else changes when you least expect it," she replies, bitter. "Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises."
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Jodi Picoult |
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That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person
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Jodi Picoult |
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.
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You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.
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Jodi Picoult |
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They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
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Jodi Picoult |
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But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her. There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the so..
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Jodi Picoult |
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It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.
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Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.
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Jodi Picoult |
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How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...
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The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.
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Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?
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Jodi Picoult |
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Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.
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In reality, you don't ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I want to live," he said, "So I have to die."
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Jodi Picoult |
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I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
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We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never ..
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I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us."
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Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Two thousand years ago the night sky looked completely different, and so when you get right down to it, the Greek conceptions of star signs as related to birth dates are grossly inaccurate for today's day and age. It's called the Line of Procession: back then the sun didn't set in Taurus, but in Gemini. A September 24 birthday didn't mean you were a Libra, but a Virgo. And there was a thirteenth zodiac constellation, Ophiuchus the Serpent B..
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constellations
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)
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language
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Jodi Picoult |
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Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?
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Jodi Picoult |
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The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.
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