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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f5d87ab | There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover. | privacy secret wisdom | Jodi Picoult | |
| 12c8be0 | People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her soul. | second-glance | Jodi Picoult | |
| ee572fb | The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5c96ce9 | someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7c26024 | I might never be a cover girl, but I was a girl who could cover it all. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0f29553 | Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time. | father | Jodi Picoult | |
| 99f9d4d | So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 468cb28 | As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all. | jodi-picoult my-sister-s-keeper | Jodi Picoult | |
| e8cbf3c | A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 962d5a7 | Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e1a0c13 | I was surprised that Kurt seemed to understand that you might never love someone as hard as you had the first time you'd fallen; I was even more surprised to learn that maybe you could. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c3c0ce7 | Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's important to fit in, because that similarity of identity is what defines the society. If you don't fit in, the consequences are psychological tragic, you stand alone when all you've ever known is bein.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d809396 | Because that's what stories do. They help you escape, and they give you the chance to do things you never imagined you would or could. They let you feel heartbreak you've never had and experience adventures from the safety of your own room. They are dreams for those who are still awake. They | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9b3f151 | So don't judge me, unless you've fallen asleep on a couch with your ill child, thinking this night might be her last. Ask instead: would you do it? Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a4c6a9e | In other words, what looks like cruel and heartless from one angle might, from another, actually be the only way to protect your family. -Lucas | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6950f0a | The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c9beab4 | At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dba296b | And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 634ad57 | Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 89e2369 | Parenthood was like awakening to find a soap bubble in the cup of your palm, and being told you had to carry it while you parachuted from a dizzying height, climbed a mountain range, battled on the front lines. All you wanted to do was tuck it away, safe from natural disasters and violence and prejudice and sarcasm, but that was not an option. You lived in daily fear of watching it burst, of breaking it yourself. Somehow you knew that if it.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d2d0fe9 | What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5835789 | A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready. | the-past | Jodi Picoult | |
| cf4f9b0 | The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| aae9e2b | It's no small feat, finishing a journey," I tell her. "But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ee21890 | Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though the knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bf8f411 | There is a fire raging, and we have two choices: we can turn our backs, or we can try to fight it. Yes, talking about racism is hard to do, and yes, we stumble over the words - but we who are white need to have this discussion among ourselves. Because then, even more of us will overhear, and - I hope - the conversation will spread. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fd254b1 | I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice. | justice justice-system legal-system life reality reality-of-life | Jodi Picoult | |
| b75917c | All the world's a stage, but actors aren't the only ones who play roles. Even when you're not following a script, you might as well be. You don't behave the same way in front of everyone. You know what makes your friends laugh, and what makes your parents proud, and what makes your teachers respect you - and you have a different persona for each of them. | jodi-picoult life-quotes off-the-page samantha-van-leer | Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer | |
| 58f0810 | But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. | jodi-picoult love romance | Jodi Picoult | |
| c326d69 | What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0abce08 | the way to pull a divided group together is to give them a common enemy. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2f70d6f | To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2e85a61 | but I used to think," Josef says quietly, "that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers." (pg 134)" | the-storyteller | Jodi Picoult | |
| 0264bfd | He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking. | Charles Frazier | ||
| dceb4ae | With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven indeed, though it had not been such for the people who had lived there. Soldiers had found them and made the cabin trailhead to a path of exile, loss, and death. But for a while that night, it was a place that held within its walls no pain nor even a vague memory collection of pain. | native-americans pain | Charles Frazier | |
| 1702ea7 | It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 776b39e | She had been struck by the figure of a woman's back in a mirror. She stopped and looked. The dress the figure wore was the color called ashes of roses, and Ada stood, held in place by a sharp stitch of envy or th woman's dress and the fine shape of her back and her thick dark hair and the sense of assurance she seemed to evidence in her very posture. Then Ada took a step forward, and the other woman did too, and Ada realized that it was her.. | women | Charles Frazier | |
| 35df582 | You try your best to love the world despite obvious flaws in design and execution and you take care of whatever needy things present themselves to you during your passage through it. Otherwise you're worthless. | making-the-best-of-situations | Charles Frazier | |
| ce7479b | So she guessed you could word hard to make yourself who you wanted to be and yet find that the passing years had transformed you beyond your own recognition. End up disappointed in yourself, despite your best efforts. | Charles Frazier | ||
| b4f03f6 | But one day leads to another, and so on. No way around it. It's that merciless thing that time does. | Charles Frazier | ||
| e9cd8bc | In the hovering between sleep and wakefulness, lucid but dreaming, Luce's mind got away from her, and all kinds of empty shit she had meant to put entirely behind her forever swam up and lived in her head again. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 0297431 | In the end, he said he judged the Bible to be a sound book. Nevertheless, he wondered why the white people were not better than they are, having had it for so long. He promised that just as soon as white people achieved Christianity, he would recommend it to his own folks. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 69a4bf9 | Within an hour, I had gone from anguish at the thought of losing him in Scotland, to a strong desire to bed him in the herbaceous borders, and from that to a pronounced urge to hit him on the head with an oar. Now I was back to tenderness. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 39d1205 | but, like many ideas, that one was more appealing in concept than in execution | Diana Gabaldon |