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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b802b1c | We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d584b4c | These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bb32725 | How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8865a70 | At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 462bf8d | There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 816eb08 | Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 46f9d85 | But here's the truth: no matter how much you might wish for it, princes don't come around every day, and happy endings don't grow on trees. Take it from me: the sooner you grow up, the less you'll be disappointed. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8e65021 | Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God." | god hope | Jodi Picoult | |
| 165fcb7 | I'm sorry. I love you, but it's an enormous conflict of interest." Her head snaps up, "You love me?" "What?" MY face is suddenly on fire. "I never said that." "You did. I heard it." "I said I'd love to." "No," Sage says, a grin splitting her face. "You didn't." Did I? I'm so tired I don't know what the hell is coming out of my mouth. Which probably means that I don't have the faculties to cover up what I really feel for Sage Singer, with an.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 73ed19b | In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dc1db4c | Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2f42a94 | Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d2a41e7 | My whole life, this is how I've defined the paranormal: can't understand it, can't explain it, can't deny it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 13a2055 | The thing about a mom is that she's always there. She's the one who rubs your back when you have the flu, who manages to notice you have no clean underwear and does your wash for you, who stocks the refrigerator with all the foods you love without having to ask. The thing about a mom is that you never imagine taking care of her, instead of the other way around. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 82b9b54 | He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fab6122 | The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me. | jury | Jodi Picoult | |
| e552be2 | The adhan," the father explained. "God is great; there is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." he looked up at me and smiled. "In Islam, we want the first words a child hears to be a prayer." It seemed absolutely fitting, give the miracle that every baby is. The differences between the Muslim father's request and the request made by Turk Bauer was like the difference between day and night. Between love and hate." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 46e4e2b | There are all sorts of losses people suffer--from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 16c4670 | Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ff3b25a | Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f326565 | A mother has nine months to get used to sharing the space where her heart is; for a father it comes on sudden, like a storm that changes the landscape forever. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 54119ec | Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a61187e | When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b662771 | At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring. | Charles Frazier | ||
| f922624 | I consider it a mutual duty, that we owe to each other, to communicate in a spirit of the utmost frankness and candor. Let it ever be done with unlocked hearts. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 30162b8 | The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 91733c5 | she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 36e16d8 | Bleak as the scene was, though, there was growing joy in Inman's heart. He was nearing home; he could feel it in the touch of thin air on skin, in his longing to see the lead of hearth smoke from the houses of people he had known all his life. People he would not be called upon to hate or fear. He rose and took a wide stance on the rock and stood and pinched down his eyes to sharpen the view across the vast propect to one far mountain. It s.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 30305a2 | A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever. | Charles Frazier | ||
| ebdc5fd | It wasn't the risk," I said, flicking my toes at a big black-and-white splotched carp. "Or not entirely. It was--well, it was partly fear, but mostly it was that I--I couldn't leave Jamie." I shrugged helplessly. "I--simply couldn't." | jamie-fraser | Diana Gabaldon | |
| c638e87 | He had crossed the room with no notion what he might say or do - he had no knowledge of the language of condolence, no skill at social small talk; his metier was business and politics. And yet, when his hostess had introduced them and left, he found himself still holding the hand he had kissed, looking into soft brown eyes that drowned his soul. And without further thought or hesitation had said, 'God help me, I am in love with you. | trevelyan | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 9a46a2c | Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing---as he knew of me--that he will protect you with his life. I love you forever, Brianna. I know whose child you truly are. With all my love, Dad. | fathers love daughters safety protection | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 25d72e8 | You should know, Bree--I don't regret it. In spite of everything, I don't regret it. You'll know something now, of how lonely I was for so long, without Jamie. It doesn't matter. If the price of that separation was your life, neither Jamie nor I can regret it. Bree, you are worth everything--and more. I've done a great many things in my life, so far, but the most important of them all was to love your father and you. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 179019e | I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye? | romance love | Diana Gabaldon | |
| fd9e4d9 | He wanted to laugh; the vision of her pounding that wee boy in a fury of berserk rage, hair flying in the wind and a look of blood in her eye, was one he would treasure. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 68f4fd1 | For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0d8431c | I loved Frank...I loved him alot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body. I couldn't leave him. I couldn't. | jamie-fraser | Diana Gabaldon | |
| b887e49 | Don't move, Sassenach," Jamie's voice came softly, next to me. "Just for a moment, mo duinne--be still." I obligingly froze, until he touched me on the shoulder. "That's all right, Sassenach," he said, with a smile in his voice. "It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e86a016 | I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you--then that is my punishment,which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whi.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 800d55a | You do mean it, then," I said. "You feel ... er ... betrothed to her?" "Well, of course he does, Sassenach," Jamie said, reaching for another slice of toast. "He left her his dog." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| c49ffbe | Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone. I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f3ee1a7 | Damn," I said softly to myself. I had been fighting it for some time. Even before this ridiculous marriage, I had been more than conscious of his attraction. It had happened before, as it doubtless happens to almost everyone. A sudden sensitivity to the presence, the appearance, of a particular man--or woman, I suppose. The urge to follow him with my eyes, to arrange for small "inadvertent" meetings, to watch him unawares as he went about h.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 18d93d6 | Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort - to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy - to the sort of thing that will make a man sweat and tremble and throw up . . . and go and do what he thinks he has to do anyway. | war generals claire-fraser | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 052ede0 | He pressed me firmly to him, and I could feel that he was more than ready to get on with the business at hand. With some surprise, I realized that I was ready too. In fact, whether it was the result of the late hour, the wine, his own attractiveness, or simple deprivation, I wanted him quite badly. | jamie-fraser | Diana Gabaldon |