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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 75d58e8 | It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 48b33d1 | Everyone wants their kid to grow up and go to Harvard or be a quarterback for the Patriots. No one ever looks at their baby and thinks, Oh, I hope my kid grows up and becomes a freak. I hope he gets to school every day and prays he won't catch anyone's attention. But you know what? Kids grow up like that every single day. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 965da74 | You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod." -- | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4133a71 | When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon? | religion wwii | Jodi Picoult | |
| e12ed6a | I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 24dcd6b | Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions. | reality | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7c1b276 | Because the more you changed, the less of you there was. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8c19573 | As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c142358 | Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ce9796c | Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed. | life | Jodi Picoult | |
| 73dc8db | No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged. | function life mouth thing-to-ponder truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| ae57792 | Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep. | dream | Jodi Picoult | |
| 26c8050 | Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0d40d58 | How far can a person go... and still live with himself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9b63075 | the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9c7954e | This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dbcbc7b | Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning. | love romance young-adult | Jodi Picoult | |
| 90993d2 | Sometimes the hardest thing to hear is the truth. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1952223 | Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c055dac | Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God. | James Lee Burke | ||
| b7e142f | I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 740bd29 | A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive. | my-sister-s-keeper woman | Jodi Picoult | |
| 835aca9 | Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die. | entropy | Jodi Picoult | |
| 53c4158 | But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics! | Woody Allen | ||
| 2d1ea10 | Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. | lawyers | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3dd8849 | If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3f231b6 | A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation | journey observation travel | Tahir Shah | |
| 9e1cddd | As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way. | expedition politeness | Tahir Shah | |
| a10c676 | Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal. | reality time | Tahir Shah | |
| 892e317 | The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together. | journey quest rule | Tahir Shah | |
| 25cabb9 | When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8ef25e4 | We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c77d565 | And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 172f4c9 | I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7a82b4a | Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5e80bb6 | I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow - is the most powerful drug on this planet. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 99840da | You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, .. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 25fc7c5 | He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart. | Steve Martin | ||
| cd3b1a7 | So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure. | Steve Martin | ||
| ac230da | For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, or even a month from now, but one day you're going to wake up and see that this whole time you've been gone, you've only been headed back to where you started. And I'll be there, waiting." He leans forward and kisses me once, feather-light, on the.. | go-back let start trust | Jodi Picoult | |
| dbbdead | Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2fc82d4 | Jika kau memilih untuk mencari sesuatu, maka sebaiknya kau siap menghadapi apa pun yang kau temukan. Karena mungkin itu bukan seperti yang kau harapkan. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4e3db23 | a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0001122 | I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day. | Jodi Picoult |