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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d68e27f | How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3098a3e | People, like houses, hold their secrets. Sometimes the secrets inhabit them, and sometimes people inhabit their secrets. They wrap their arms tight to hug them close, twist their lying tongues around the truth. But, like gravy left overnight, the truth is a thin layer of film that forms and covers the surface. The truth prevails, rises above all else. It squirms and wriggles inside, grows until the swollen tongue can't wrap itself around th.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| af89e3d | So you do read the papers. Usually kids your age need a bomb up their backsides, but it's good to see you've got your wits about you. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| e1d2730 | The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn't like it. She thought she was a better person than this. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 90b29ed | People's name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 3f14f96 | So how long have you been together? Two months?' 'Five.' 'Five? Jesus, Steve, you might as well get married. I should buy a hat.' 'Don't. They give away your Spock ears.' She laughed. 'This is the Romanian girl?' 'Croatian.' 'Right. She's a painter?' 'Photographer.' 'Right.' She studied him. 'What?' he laughed self-consciously as though he was a twelve-year-old boy who'd just been caught with his first girlfriend. 'Nothing.' 'Come on.' 'I d.. | kitty-logan relationship restaurant victoria-beckham | Cecelia Ahern | |
| ae56f49 | Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches. | Chris Gardner | ||
| ef7195b | If you have a dream and a desire to pursue it with every fiber of your being, but can't move past excuses or circumstances that seem to be standing in your way, there is a life lesson ahead with your name on it. If you are tired of the status quo and are dying to shake up your life, reinvent yourself, and find a pursuit you love doing so much that you can't wait for the sun to come up in the morning, you've come to the right place. If | Chris Gardner | ||
| 8603382 | Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn't nearly as important as what was right. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4334b15 | It struck Lacy that she didn't really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5382141 | Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| af8078f | It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 268903a | This wasn't the first time he'd be saving her by letting her go. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8c0d930 | There are an endless number of people who have left a love-shaped hole in the heart of someone else. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 36a740d | A villain let your creativity out of its cage. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2e4e221 | I honestly can't tell if [she's] being intentionally mean or is she's truly that stupid. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1709953 | Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach between your teeth or when your ass looks fat in a pair of jeans or when you're being a bitch. They tell you, and there's no drama or agenda, like there would be if the message had come from your husband. They tell you the truth because you need to hear it, but it doesn't alter the bond between you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 11e31df | memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there's a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one. Negative moments get remembered. Traumatic ones get forgotten, or so warped that they are unrecognizable, or else they turn into the big, bleak, white nothing I get in my head when I try to focus on that night. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| edf2f58 | You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b97f359 | She had tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize that in her hurry, she must have left it behind somewhere. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2061b88 | I want her to be safe. I want her to be mine. | mariah | Jodi Picoult | |
| c344fd2 | Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand. | families logic perspective | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3b998ab | How could you pick, knowing that you'd have to go home and live with the choice you made? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8fe485b | She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b557118 | I used to have pink hair," I told Seven. "I used to have a real job," he answered. "What happened?" He shrugged. "I dyed my hair pink. What happened to you?" | life | Jodi Picoult | |
| 90784a2 | Jacob's concept: The concept of Asperger's is like a flavoring added to a person and although my concentration is higher than those of others, if tested everyone would have traces of this condition too. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c2bab54 | This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 11fd8e3 | They were different places in that same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 423a005 | She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| aca25a1 | And if you don't find what you're looking for?" At Roy's question Addie looked up. "Then all I've lost is time." | time | Jodi Picoult | |
| 14e5b6b | But you remind me so much of her." "I-I do?" "Yes." Addie gifted him with a smile."Because I love you both." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 04fa9b4 | It never failed to amaze Alex how, with the brush of a hand, the track of someone's life might veer in a completely different direction. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 41f0a83 | Over her shoulder was Josie-and for the first time, Alex could really see a piece of herself in her daughter. It wasn't so much the shape of the face but the shine of it; not the color of the eyes but the dream caught like smoke in them. There was no amount of expensive makeup that would make her look the way her Josie did; that was simply what falling in love did to a person. Could you be jealous of your own child? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8febec8 | She had smiled her way through the births and had offered the new mothers the support and the medical care that they needed, but the moment she'd sent them on their way, cutting that last umbilical cord between hospital and home, Lacy knew she was giving them the wrong advice. Instead of easy platitudes like Let them eat when they want to eat and You can't hold a baby too much, she should have been telling them the truth: This child you've .. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d024ca5 | I didn't want to invade his privacy; I didn't want to fight with him; I didn't want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted him to be a child forever." She glanced up, crying harder now. "But you can't do that, if you're a parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bd5b150 | I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9a08db9 | Cuando eres adolescente no eres intocable. Eres estupido. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 714bac3 | Las cosas existen mientras haya quien que las recuerde. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d350954 | You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in the constellation. Look, he would say. There is the head, and the tail. There's the heart. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6ef16c6 | The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison. | mirror-of-my-soul native-americans philosophy-of-life wolf | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7e1cae5 | sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 915e624 | We don't have to accept each other's beliefs...but we do have to accept each other's right to believe them. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e77e012 | Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usually I am in transit, speeding in my Jeep until my lungs give out. Today, I'm driving ninety-five down 95. I weave in and out of traffic, sewing up a scar. People yell at me behind their closed windows. I give them the finger. It would solve a thousand problems if I rolled the Jeep over an embankment. It's not like I haven't thought about it,.. | organ-donor reckless-behavior reckless-driving self-deprecation suicidal-ideation | Jodi Picoult | |
| 2f7ef1c | I know every line of his face. The one that was carved the first year of our marriage, by laughing so often. The one that was born of worries the year he left the contracting companies to go into business for himself. The one developed from focusing hard on Nathaniel as he took his first steps, said his first words. | Jodi Picoult |