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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5bf69dc | But identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through--the man you fell in love with years ago might look the same and speak the same and smell the same yet be completely different. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 192c336 | You will ask yourself you will ask yourself | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a6910af | So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person?" "I don't know," I admit."But I do think that some stains never wash out." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a1a2c96 | Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see | librarians | Jodi Picoult | |
| 68baf4a | She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language. Love. Help. Rape. Stop. Then. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b31e63e | pro-choice' is a misnomer. There is not really an issue of choice at all. It is against the law to cut short someone's life, period. To say that a fetus is not a life is to split hairs, since all major bodily systems are in place at the time most abortions are undertaken. To say that it is a woman's right to choose is also unclear, because it is not only her body but another's as well. In a society that stands behind the best interests of a.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e24e9ab | The vast majority of protesters were men, and it made perfect sense to Louie--the male of the species felt threatened by the biology of women. Even in the Bible, normal female biological functions were made pathological: You were unclean when you had your menses. Childbirth had to occur in pain. And there was the questionable nature of those who bled regularly--but did not die. There was, of course, the history, too. Women had been property.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bf32548 | You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e4c129d | So what have I learned that is helpful? Well, if you are white, like I am, you can't get rid of the privilege you have, but you can use it for good. Don't say I don't even notice race! like it's a positive thing. Instead, recognize that differences between people make it harder for some to cross a finish line, and create fair paths to success for everyone that accommodate those differences. Educate yourself. If you think someone's voice is .. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 663c432 | Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a6f25fe | Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become. I imagine she thought the same, meeting me. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ecb0935 | desperate people often do things that they normally would not do | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ad0e2c4 | It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us hope. It meant that no matter what was happening in this camp, no matter how many Jews they managed to round up and kill, there were still more of us out there: living lives, falling in love, getting married, assuming that tomorrow would come. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| febe367 | It's amazing what you can convince yourself of, if you buy into the lie. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0e7e577 | I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by almost everyone. | emptiness empty loneliness sadness | Jodi Picoult | |
| 68f0127 | She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were told what to do. Adults made up their own minds, even when the options tore them apart. | choices decisions planned-parenthood | Jodi Picoult | |
| d487d5c | Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit? | german | Jodi Picoult | |
| deb91cd | Silence has a sound | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 30f52da | It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces. | falling-apart strength weakness | Jodi Picoult | |
| 9fd24d0 | But we can't make policies based on religion when religion means different things to different people. Which leaves science. The science of reproduction is what it is. Conception is conception. You can decide the ethical value that has for you, based on your own relationship with God...but the policies around basic human rights with regard to reproduction shouldn't be up for interpretation. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 915beed | Children don't judge their own lives. Normal for them is what's laid before them day by day. Judgment comes later. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 3e0580b | If every generation helps the next take one step up, imagine where we might all be someday. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 1a1925c | The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face of the age and had been so stunned by it that when he thought into the future, all he could vision was a world from which everything he had counted important had been banished or had willingly fled. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 6083c32 | I won't go into it any further, other than to say that year by year the world darkens down and things are always going away. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 7b5d7f9 | No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson... | living-in-the-present simple-lesson | Charles Frazier | |
| 7b4bf6d | a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep on living...His spirit blasted away so that he had become lonesome and estranged from all around him...It seemed a poor swap to find that the only way one might keep from fearing death was to act numb and set apart as if dead already. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 819efdf | Some far day when she had become a better person and could feel something besides stinging anger that her beautiful, gentle sister had not protected herself more carefully against a world of threat. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 2be1447 | Somebody out of touch with reality, when she jumped she probably thought she'd fly. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 94cc08e | They say Aslan is on the move- perhaps has already landed." And now a very curious thing happened. None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different. Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it has some enormous meaning- either a terrifying one which turn.. | edmund-pevensie feelings lucy-pevensie peter-pevensie susan-pevensie | C.S. Lewis | |
| 1b6895e | I'd never | Susan Lewis | ||
| 2a6961b | Aphrodite put off her famous belt, in which all the charms of love are woven, potency, desire, lovely whispers, and the force of seduction, which takes away foresight and judgment even from the most reasonable people. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7a7a385 | Here's a question I still can't answer: Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice? | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 9cf739e | Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew worse through the course of the remaining deaths. The prevailing symptom of this state was an inability to recall any sound. Truck doors slammed silently; Lux's mouth screamed silently; and the street, the creaking tree limbs, the streetlight clicking different colors, the electric buzz of the pedestrian crossing box - all these usually cla.. | silence | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 63a8163 | We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns. | growing-up parents | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 4b5c2ef | When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full posession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims-- these are lucky eventualities but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, n.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| b7b9354 | And did I mention how in summer the streets of Smyrna were lined with baskets of rose petals? And how everyone in the city could speak French, Italian, Greek, Turkish, English, and Dutch? And did I tell you about the famous figs, brought in by camel caravan and dumped onto the ground, huge piles of pulpy fruit lying in the dirt, with dirty women steeping them in salt water and children squatting to defecate behind the clusters? Did I mentio.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 2d42316 | and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive. | survival true-love virgin-suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 783c934 | Mr. Lisbon knew his parental and neighborly duty entailed putting the retainer in a Ziploc bag, calling the Kriegers, and telling them their expensive orthodontal device was in safe keeping. Acts like theses -- simple, humane, conscientious, forgiving -- held life together. Only a few days earlier he would have been able to perform them. But now he took the retainer and dropped it in the toiler. He pressed the handle. The retainer, jostled .. | grief parents society | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 32b6754 | She was the still point in the turning world. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 913fd4b | Sixty trillion years ago a god-scientist dug a hole through the earth, filled it with dynamite and blew the earth in two. The smaller of these two pieces became the moon. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| bd346f1 | At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time. | disassociation family | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 4fee0aa | I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 1b1c0ed | Leonard's being up early constituted a new change in his sleeping patterns, was part of the former change in his sleeping patterns, or indicated a beneficial development. She didn't know if his perfectionism canceled out his loss of ambition, or if they were two sides of the same coin. When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 2d9903e | I glanced upward once, to see Brianna glowing, still smiling from ear to ear. Jamie was behind her, also smiling, his cheeks wet with tears. He said something to her in husky Gaelic, and brushing the hair away from her neck, leaned forward and kissed her gently, just behind the ear | Diana Gabaldon |