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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 30091d0 | A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like may be he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like may be everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f775c15 | Never ask your child a open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered." -- | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 33d7256 | I'm sick and tired of people in my life abandoning me, and she will be just one more. So I do what is easiest, when I feel like I'm in danger of being left behind. I make sure I'm the one to walk away first. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| df470a0 | Only cheats go back on a promise. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 278491c | There are pictures of me, too, but not many. I go from infant to about ten years old in one fell swoop. Maybe it's because I was the third child, and they were sick and tired of keeping a catalog of life. Maybe it's because they forgot. It's nobody's fault, and it's not a big deal, but it's a little depressing all the same. A photo says, You were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, You were so important to me that i put down ev.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5116482 | I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| df6d4cc | There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9108bde | But Marice, he rode off to save you, and wound up leaving you behind forever. Is it really worth dying for the person you love?" She thinks about it for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, can you live without her?" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 16b6ee0 | This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c28de7f | When he smiles at me, I am lost | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 450e334 | I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend." She swallowed and looked at the black ground. "The thing is, they're both you." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c65fb76 | Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that? | marriage life vows sharing promises | Jodi Picoult | |
| 072f96a | courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more. | courage life love jodi-picoult | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7bcb981 | If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 61ba635 | Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal. They're not mutually exclusive. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4def893 | I'm surprised you can believe in God, after meeting so many evil people." "How could I not," Leo asks, "after meeting so many survivors" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 66f475c | Some stains never wash out. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2e90981 | It does not matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| df1aa46 | You can love a pet more than you love some people. [...] It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5ae80b4 | The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in her eyes - like she had been violated in some way that broke her own image. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c95817b | It was not compassion that led to Daniel's change of heart, and it was not kindness. It was realizing that, against all odds, he had something in common with Jason Underhill. Like Daniel, Jason had learned the hard way that they we are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts, we can't become. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 406f90b | A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 72d49a7 | You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it. | marginalisation | Jodi Picoult | |
| 1feba3d | Well, I had the other problem," I told him. "I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in." "What happened then?" "What else," I said. "It broke." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6d733a3 | You want to hear something really sad?' I whisper. 'You're my best friend.' 'You're right. That is really sad.' Oliver grins. 'That's not what I meant.' 'Are we still playing True Confessions?' he asks. 'Is that what we're doing?' He reaches toward me and rubs a strand of my hair between his fingers. 'I think you're beautiful,' Oliver says. 'Inside and out.' He leans forward from the tiniest bit and breathes in, closing his eyes, before he .. | jodi-picoult | Jodi Picoult | |
| fa0396a | I didn't cry when she got on the plane. She lived with me for four years, and when she walked away, I didn't feel much of anything at all | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5f91ac7 | There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For everyone person who gets, there's someone who must give. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 86678ed | I kept hoping, silently, that you would want to save her like you hadn't been able to save yourself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ac4e0d1 | Loves a tidal wave...because it sucks you under and you drown. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 05dc8d1 | Ein Schatz wird erst dadurch zu einem Schatz, dass du ihn so schwer findest, wenn du ihn am dringendsten brauchst. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d69c3f0 | I couldn't hear his voice over the hammer of my heart. And I told myself over and over I should have known that someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 30cdf21 | I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c8acaa0 | You heard form Jacob these days?" "No, which is the way I wish it to be," Aaron said quietly. Ephram shook his head. "He was banned from the Church, Aaron. Not from your life." | Jodie picoult | ||
| 58b57f3 | So you're not even going to try? You're just going to assume that the answer's no? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 978efe9 | there are just some people you cannot find the good in. But who am I to decide if someone should be killed for murdering a child...instead of for murdering a drug addict during a deal that went bad...or even if we should be killing the inmate himself? I'm not smart enough to be able to say which life is worth more than the other. I don't know if anyone is. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a52b9b9 | You could have been Bethany Matthews, Delia Hopkins, Cleopatra - it wouldn't matter. And if you'd grown up with a thousand lemon trees in the middle of the desert, with a cactus instead of a Christmas tree and a pet armadillo, well then, I would have gone to law school at Arizona State, I guess. I would have defended illegal aliens crossing the border. But we still would have wound up together, Dee. No matter what kind of life I had, you'd .. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| be414e5 | You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them. | love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 1e5152c | He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cab9c23 | Life is what happened when all the 'what-ifs' didn't . . . . | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e02f3af | Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7861619 | Bila kau mencintai seseorang, kau ingin agar ia memiliki semua yang didambakannya | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7ad1d55 | because in the past words have only driven them apart. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| db9b48b | There was a time when I prayed to saints. What I liked about them were their humble beginnings: they were human, once, and so you knew that they just got it in a way Jesus never would. They understood what it meant to have your hopes dashed or your promises broken or you feelings hurt. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5c2f52c | In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did. | Jodi Picoult |