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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | |
| 501bfdd | What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder?" he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers. "What is about me?" He turned then, and gave me a narrow eye. "What it is that makes every man ye meet want to take off his breeks within five minutes of meetin' ye." "Well, if you don't know, my dear," I said, "no one does." | married-couples | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 07fd794 | He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions. | roger | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 14144dc | Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones! | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0b373bd | We thought you were dead, you bloody arsehole!" he said, furious. "Both of us! Dead! And we--we--took too much to drink one night--very much too much ... We spoke of you ... and ... Damn you, neither one of us was making love to the other--we were both fucking you!" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ab0214b | His Grace woke up in the morning red-eyed as a ferret and in roughly the same temper as a rabid badger. Had I a tranquilizing dart, I would have shot him with it without an instant's hesitation. | claire-fraser duke-of-pardloe humor | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 96d66a2 | The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna already curled up like sheep's wool." He glanced at me, and a half-smile lit his face, inspite of his obvious perturbation. "Judging by the state of your hair, Sassenach, I should say that it's going to rain verra soon now." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f543d65 | But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And, Sassenach," he whispered, "your face is my heart." | jammf | Diana Gabaldon | |
| edeebd1 | You aren't doing it for the sake of ideals, are you? Not for the sake of...liberty. Freedom, self determination, all that.' He shook his head. 'No,' he said softly. 'Why, then? I asked, more gently. 'For you,' he said without hesitation. '...For my family. For the future. And if that is not an ideal, I've never heard of one. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9902997 | And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1d4b973 | The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene ... | William Faulkner | ||
| 2036342 | Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs | tired | William Faulkner | |
| 9c2fdc8 | I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind - and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town. | William Faulkner | ||
| 9c9850d | It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family. | William Faulkner | ||
| d2e7a34 | Truth is one. It doesn't change. It covers all things which touch the heart - honor and pride and pity and justice and courage and love. | William Faulkner |