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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b503468 | People don't know that they do that to people when they do the things they shouldn't. Hurtful things are roots,they spread ,branch out, creep under the surface touching other parts of the lives of those they hurt. It's never one mistake, it's never one moment, it becomes a series of moments, each moment growing roots and spurting in different directions. And over time, they become muddled like an old twisted tree, strangling itself and tyin.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 08900a5 | How often we wish we'd stayed on the same path | cecelia ahern | ||
| 0fd2e91 | It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to go. There are no limits. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered. The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, that you just might have to settle a little bit less. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5d26fc0 | She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c244027 | La vida esta hecha de tiempo. Los dias se miden en horas, los salarios se miden en funcion de esas horas, nuestros conocimientos se miden en anos. Robamos unos minutos a nuestras jornadas para tomar un cafe. Volvemos corriendo a nuestros puestos, miramos el reloj, vivimos de cita en cita. Y, sin embargo, el tiempo termina agotandose y en el fondo de tu alma te preguntas si esos segundos, minutos, horas, dias, semanas, meses, anos y decadas .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 0e7867e | I'm still looking around to check and see what other people are doing to make sure I'm not completely different; I'm still looking around for help, hoping for a quick nudge and a whisper of advice. But I can't seem to be able to catch anybody's eye. Nobody else around me seems to be looking around and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I'm the only person who is confused and concerned about the choices I've made and where I'm .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 8d15246 | Bleeding heart, he'd called her. Well. He should know. He'd been the first to rip it to pieces. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6a5307b | You ask your readers if they can account for every minute of their lives, every thought in their heads, and be proud of it. You ask them if they've never jaywalked.... never gone thirty-one miles per hour in a thirty-mile zone... if they've never sped up when they saw that yellow light. And when you find that single, sorry person who hasn't taken a misstep, that one person with the right to judge me, you tell him he's just as human as I am... | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e2d133e | It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it. | do find know | Jodi Picoult | |
| cb681d7 | It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So it can breath, she said. I was just breathing. I closed my eyes, anticipating each cut, feeling that wash of relief when it was done. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7d3ab99 | And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8a78ae5 | What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 55014c2 | Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e9ba375 | Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d74be49 | Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. "Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we're out of purgatory for the weekend." "Maybe later," I murmur, still distracted by the day's previous events. "So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested." "Huh?" I .. | humor jules delilah-mcphee paying-attention conversation | Jodi Picoult | |
| 9999b18 | But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices. | winning | Jodi Picoult | |
| 022c9f9 | Sometimes, there's this expression on his face, as if he cannot quite believe he got so lucky. I'm not sure what he's seeing when he looks at me, but I want to be that girl. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dfa2ab2 | May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0ea7a0a | Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?" | life love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 854ec98 | You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 299d208 | Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| eb91857 | I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 81a750c | I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 129e37d | Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 44d82f7 | No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4b31114 | If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. | story | Jodi Picoult | |
| 186d46c | When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim. | parent | Jodi Picoult | |
| 120c81d | It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1b09b4f | He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d92adaa | True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language. | racism | Jodi Picoult | |
| d2df52e | Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 99bf386 | There is a reason has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 714fac4 | the reason we lose people we care about is so we're more grateful for the ones we still have. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 99d3bad | I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6b7175a | Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you're right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break--be they bones, hearts, or promises--can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you've never known. I learn this over and over again, | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fc31255 | I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 65fb53f | You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip. | jodi-picoult my-sister-s-keeper reincarnation wit | Jodi Picoult | |
| 1195314 | this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5f07b6a | I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 47fa716 | I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship may be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better that the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9bdaa50 | You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." "How?" When I looked down at you, I was struck by how much of myself I could see in the shape of your eyes, in the light of your smile. "Sa Cassidy," you instructed. "Cassidy." "Say...Ursula." "Ursula," I parroted. "Now....," and you pointed to your own chest. "Willow." "Can't you hear it?" you said. " When you love so.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 610a804 | There are an endless number of people who have left a love-shaped hole in the heart of someone else. Eventually someone brave and stupid will come along and try to fill that hole. But it never works, and so instead, that selfless soul winds up with a gap in heart, too. And so on. It's a miracle that anyone survives, when so much of us is missing. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6d22c33 | But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again? | revenge | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3bafa97 | Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected. | Jodi Picoult |