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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 248b6fb | I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?" | Steve Martin | ||
| 42097c1 | she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses. | truth | Steve Martin | |
| 3a261a3 | Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. It's as though they already know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time... | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| adb3adc | Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. Every time I'm in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man to come trotting into my life (on a horse of course, literally trotting himself . . . ) Then you realize you don't want a long-haired posh-speaking man trotting into your life because he's the one who put you in the bloody mess in the first place. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 07807c8 | This story is about people,secrets and time.About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who cover themselves with layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ab61230 | And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet. | problems | Cecelia Ahern | |
| cf8b3fe | Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact. | constance-dubois fact hear kitty-logan one-hundred-names read see | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 20f8c66 | Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 605c19d | What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he reall.. | human life thoughts | Jodi Picoult | |
| 04a8c12 | Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3679586 | Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bc54c88 | you never forget your first fall. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c6c45a8 | What does it feel like?" he asked. "What does what feel like?" Peter thought for a moment. "Being at the top." Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. "Like if you take one wrong step," she said, "you're going to fall." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6b71f34 | She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. "You haven't seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I'm not the great love of his life, the one he'll never forget." "You are to me," I say." | oliver | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3d6a5ea | she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surplus jacket and combat bots, she did this without apology. It was a great irony that the very fact of a relationship with her would diminish her appeal, that the moment she came to love me back and depend on me as much as I depended on her, she would no longer be a truly independent spirit. No way in hell was I going to be the one to take that.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 08c0052 | As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 84a654c | When you're hurting deeply, you go inward. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c4b7551 | When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6095283 | I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil. | devil faith god | Jodi Picoult | |
| 04ff751 | But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination. | reader words | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4ac0a4a | Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give-and then realize that it still isn't what they need? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9ac120c | Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| efa203a | Peter took a shuddering breath. He wondered what his fish had thought, expecting the cool blue of the sea, only to wind up swimming in shit. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cbdd0a7 | If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8ee70aa | My grandmother lived a remarkable life. She watched her nation fall to pieces; and even when she became collateral damage, she believed in the power of the human spirit. She gave when she had nothing; she fought when she could barely stand; she clung to tomorrow when she couldn't find footing on the rock ledge of yesterday. She was a chameleon, slipping into the personae of a privileged young girl, a frightened teen, a dreamy novelist, a pr.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d13afc1 | no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 893cbab | but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bc93eeb | History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination. | historical society truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4758cba | It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5127828 | I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9c4916c | But there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you. | love romance | Jodi Picoult | |
| 51ec0f9 | The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on. | forgiveness sin society | Jodi Picoult | |
| 8499d5a | Do you think there will ever be a time when racism doesn't exist?" "No, because that means white people would have to buy into being equal. Who'd choose to dismantle the system that makes them special?" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 554b4e1 | At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 40c6d6a | Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?" -- | jacob | Jodi Picoult | |
| 04f200e | Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things. | fear jodi-picoult lone-wolf wisdom | Jodi Picoult | |
| 71e38eb | Edward: "Wait--you were trying to on me?" Susan: "Damn straight." Edward: "The thing is, I'm not. Straight, I mean." | gay straight | Jodi Picoult | |
| db2d570 | Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board. | god impossible on-board truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| 321ad7d | The cost of growth is always a small act of violence. | violence | Jodi Picoult | |
| d4191ca | In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself. | brian-fitzgerald kate-fitzgerald sister | Jodi Picoult | |
| 83777d8 | There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 080e4d0 | girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests. | Eugenides Jeffrey | ||
| 3288358 | We have nothing now between us, save--respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1e0a0d5 | You cannot compel love," he said finally, "nor summon it at will. Still less," he added ruefully, "can you dismiss it." | love | Diana Gabaldon |