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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cbd7797 | The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c585bdc | males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e8afc7a | Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury. | ran jodi-picoult perfect-match moral | Jodi Picoult | |
| b3ccbff | The best lies are the ones that are wrapped around a core of truth. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2f4f839 | You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours. Today, when I get to Hartwick | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a5c3255 | And I thought--not for the first time--that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fd261c4 | As a prosecutor, you've got the burden of proof. As a defense lawyer, all you have to do is introduce a tiny doubt. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1728f99 | If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really fall? If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 70dcb29 | Who knew that when you cut a slit in the belly of the night sky, it bled color? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4f976fd | Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. | pain wounds | Jodi Picoult | |
| 48d6aec | It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9063fbd | There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really the alpha all along | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d76d8ac | How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a pair of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell. | grief loss sadness love sad | Jodi Picoult | |
| 8ddad17 | The bottom line," Seven explained last night, "is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cb17965 | Your child is hurt. How quickly can you make it better? What if you can't? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a765267 | As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for a child to curl close to her side; how she could be soft enough to serve as a pillow and strong enough to move heaven and earth. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ee38a45 | But Edward doesn't even flinch; it's as if he's reading the text of me with some magic internal Rosetta stone that makes him understand what I say is not what I mean at all. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c1652c8 | he glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to remember when she used to be his daughter. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3913763 | There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 41f8428 | I know that some neurologists think that autistic kids have brain synapses so close together and firing in such quick succession that they cause hyperawareness; that one of the reasons children on the spectrum rock or stim is to help them focus instead of having all sensations bombard them at once. I think clairvoyance isn't really all that much different. In all probability, neither is mental illness. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0d7ab88 | I wonder if it's putting on someone else's skin for a while that she likes so much, or if it's the option of being able to send back a circumstance that just doesn't suit you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6dc18fc | There is way too much to explain - my own blood seeping into my sister's veins; the nurses holding me down to stick me for white cells Kate might borrow; the doctor saying they didn't get enough the first time around. The bruises and the deep bone ache after I gave up my marrow; the shots that sparked more stem cells in me, so that there'd be extra for my sister. The fact that I'm not sick, but I might as well be. The fact that the only rea.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 86c1e71 | There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f8a50ce | we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 634f80b | In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies. But there is one exception: In a year when there are limited resources-- a drought, say, or a herd that has grown too big to sustain feeding all its members in a given area-- the matriarch may make the decision to split the group. She will lead some of the elephants off in one direction, and her daughter will lead the rest on another route. They .. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| dda20e4 | Heroes did not always swoop in to rescue. They made questionable calls. They lived with doubts. They replayed and edited and imagined different outcomes. They killed, sometimes, to save. | heroism | Jodi Picoult | |
| dfe9786 | I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e222dac | The brain can do a lot of things, Olive said, but it can't distinguish between what's really happening and what you're imagining. That's why scary movies scare you and why you cry at Nicholas Sparks books. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ec2ebbe | Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4761014 | Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn't control women's sexual independence. To them, this was the next best thing. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f5aa149 | It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8ec7554 | A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f296bd5 | Catholics believed in life at conception. Muslims believed that it took forty-two days after conception for Allah to send an angel to transform sperm and egg into something alive...There were the outliers, too--the ancient Greeks, who said that a fetus had a "vegetable" soul, and the Jews, who said that the soul came at birth....Still, it didn't really make sense, did it? How could the moment that life began differ so much, depending on the.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 783b047 | You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.' 'I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| efa5b3f | WE ALL DO IT, YOU know. Distract ourselves from noticing how time's passing. We throw ourselves into our jobs. We focus on keeping the blight off our tomato plants. We fill up our gas tanks and top off our Metro cards and do the grocery shopping so that the weeks look the same on the surface. And then one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man. One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of y.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5f6940e | When I run across something so incredible that I want to show it to someone else. The problem is, when you make the choice to be a loner, you lose that privilege. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6504793 | He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 44bbc33 | BEING A MOTHER GIVES YOU a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel. Or hold him as he cries, but imagine his smile. Or watch him walk toward you, the size of a man, and see the dimpled skin of an infant. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d0f20ec | You can't create life in a place that's dying by degrees. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8abe5f3 | I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b4592f7 | I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a896513 | In his mind, Inman likened the swirling paths of vulture flight to the coffee grounds seeking pattern in his cup. Anyone could be oracle for the random ways things fall against each other. It was simple enough to tell fortunes if a man dedicated himself to the idea that the future will inevitably be worse than the past and that time is a path leading nowhere but a place of deep and persistent threat. The way Inman saw it, if a thing like Fr.. | oracle superstition | Charles Frazier | |
| 43fb013 | The cabins they passed among seemed solemn in their abandonment, cramped by the watercourse and the overhanging brow of the cloudy mountain. Some of its people might yet be living, and Ada wondered how often they remembered this lonesome place, now still as a held breath. Whatever word they had called it would soon be numbered among the names of things which have not been passed down to us and are exiled from our memories. She doubted that .. | Charles Frazier | ||
| d884927 | Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. p. 380 | music songs | Charles Frazier |