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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5c29863 | It wasn't her throat, and it wasn't a fever, but it hurt all the same to be heartbroken. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 874e691 | The mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 81da8b0 | What did you say to the people who had given you life, when you were about to intentionally throw that gift away? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d2dfe0c | Would you rather spend the rest of your life thinking about us, and remembering it as something totally perfect, or would it be better to let it get all screwed up and have that as your memory? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c5471eb | Delilah's mother cleans other people's houses, and she reminds me a bit of another story from Rapscullio's shelves, about a young scullery maid who possesses both glass footwear and inner beauty, which makes a prince fall head over heels for her. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 02f879f | It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips of her free hand gently touching her mouth, whispering, "Beloved." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 83afd4f | It is very hard to believe you when I'm trying so hard to pretend it never happened. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 181ec07 | They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 49d5f06 | Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value. | worth loss love jodi-picoult value | Jodi Picoult | |
| 9621030 | Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6b3655c | Given my mother's experience with romance, I shouldn't even care - but there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn't near you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 47e72e4 | Happiness was relative | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a396330 | Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning into someone she did not want to be. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4acf4d5 | It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7dd453b | May be it took realizing that you could die to keep you from wanting to do it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| efbe772 | she finally said, | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c762833 | People move too fast and talk too much, and before you know it, they come back to a place they don't want to be - except now they know there's nowhere left to run. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9f31373 | Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance between himself and the person who'd come for help. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 729446c | Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f950b44 | He remembered learning in one of his social studies classes that in the Old West, when Native Americans were thrown into jail, they sometimes dropped dead. The theory was that someone so used to the freedom of space couldn't handle the confinement, but Peter had another interpretation. When the only company you had was yourself, and when you didn't want to socialize, there was only one way to leave the room. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c819653 | They're a-" "-band," Patrick finished. "I know." "They're not just a band," Orestes said with reverence, his fingers flying over the keyboard. "They're the modern voice of the collective human conscience." "Tell that to Tipper Gore." "Who?" Patrick laughed. "She was before your time, I guess." "What did you used to listen to when you were a kid?" "The cavemen, banging rocks together," Patrick said dryly" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e83e4f9 | If only you could keep them that way: cast in amber, never growing up | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 83d828e | In reality, Lacy realized, this dividing line between her and Peter had been there for years. If you kept your chin up, you might even be able to convince yourself there was nothing separating you. It was only when you tried to cross it, like now, that you understood how real a barrier it could be. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5c3469b | I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child's life, no matter how much you want to. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5f15bf1 | Peter tucked the glasses into the front pocket of Jordan's jacket. "I kind of like knowing you're taking care of them," he said. "And there isn't all that much I really want to see." Jordan nodded. He walked out of the holding cell and said good-bye to the deputies. Then he headed toward the lobby, where Selena was waiting. As he approached her, he put on Peter's glasses. "What's up with those?" she asked. "I kind of like them." "You have p.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6cc9cde | Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. It couldn't save a single child-not the ones who'd gone to Sterling High that day, expecting the normal; not Josie Cormier; certainly not Peter. So what was the recipe? Was it love, mixed with something else for good measure? Luck? Hope? Forgiveness? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0e502b8 | A trial was a stupid word, considering that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fc4b9ed | What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 327f55c | Can you see the pond?" From up here, I can. It is a piece of sky, lying on the ground. When Heaven breaks, who fixes it?" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8285d12 | tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la unica forma de que sigamos recordando como deberian ser las buenas. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 70b31e4 | con su vision recuperada, bajaba los ojos para no tener que ver. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7babc4e | un arma no era nada si no habia una persona detras. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8ed564a | When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. --CHINESE PROVERB | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d8b80e3 | For the risk of it, for the sheer surprise of pressing one's nose to the glass and finding someone staring back on the other side. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dfe8422 | When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. Like: The fifth time's the charms. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 886facc | Is Understatement 101 a course in medical school?" "Of course. It's the prereq for Lying Through One's Teeth." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b734650 | It was a hairline crack, one might never have noticed, except for the fact it grew wider and wider, until there was a canyon between them. A child's job, ostensibly, was to grow up. So why, when it happened, did a parent feel so disappointed? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d484403 | what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 85b8708 | Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?" "I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back." But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lo.. | marriage relationships change falling-apart nostalgia | Jodi Picoult | |
| 249c0a6 | She'd take these random occurrences and elevate them to oracles; she'd pretend that they were enough to justify her actions. Or lack therof. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2bf278e | Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her. | love | Jodi Picoult | |
| a72928d | You'd be surprised." Charlie said. "You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit." "What the hell is Limp Bizkit?" | humor | Jodi Picoult | |
| da3a710 | It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught. | life | Jodi Picoult | |
| 12e1883 | Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion. | Jodi Picoult |