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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 291890e | If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you're never the wiser. These | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ba0101f | She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| de71c59 | Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts... | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 92f7c1a | It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide. | jodi-picoult | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7966285 | Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a hou.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 771f01c | Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me. | life | Jodi Picoult | |
| e40f619 | One of the most amazing things about elephants mourning in the wild is their ability to grieve hard, but then truly, unequivocally, let go. Humans can't seem to do that. I've always thought it's because of religion. We expect to see our loved ones again in the next life, whatever that might be. Elephants don't have that hope, only the memories of life. Maybe that's why it is easier for them to move on. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9b34cd7 | Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 06e4ad0 | Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6645878 | Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him." | god sue | Jodi Picoult | |
| b5924a8 | i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9d5263f | My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a465664 | And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them. | love-story | Jodi Picoult | |
| 224621b | The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7e83258 | You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6d60942 | However, no child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5d2996e | Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c738a68 | It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to," Josef says. "If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you become that person." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b4454de | Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 039581e | The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to everyone else who's ever read it. The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1d83db5 | There are certain things I do not talk about. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3d0527f | The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ac3e0d5 | She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting. | beauty charm interesting-quotes woman | Jodi Picoult | |
| 6fd2659 | You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. | love | Jodi Picoult | |
| b2ef2b4 | Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bbb4688 | When you are pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your lifet rying to figure out how to keep her close enough for for comfort. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| de6e223 | After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fee2c32 | The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow. | love | Jodi Picoult | |
| f06ffc4 | Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with. | lost | Jodi Picoult | |
| bd56993 | My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0e1c659 | When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web. | story | Jodi Picoult | |
| 413931f | There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you do not get vacation time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b028526 | There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 19cdc45 | She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat. | love pain truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| c5bb37d | In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. | mother past | Jodi Picoult | |
| 605f197 | There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bda5db6 | Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action. | embarrassment | Jodi Picoult | |
| ad6ddfa | He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips. | loss sorrow | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3353816 | It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for. | loss love rape relationships survivor trauma | Jodi Picoult | |
| d02dae6 | Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if they were desperate to be somebody different from who they were. So, best keep your distance. | Charles Frazier | ||
| c9b8ae5 | But even things that heal leave scars. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| fc2d16c | I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that doing so will keep it from departing. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8b2f503 | That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f04b36e | But what I do say is that there is nothing in this world or the next that can take ye from me--or me from you. | Diana Gabaldon |