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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f14cd1 | when you don't know where your headed you find places no one else would ever think to explore | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2fda044 | Because when you get right down to it, the only person you should trust is the one you'd lay down your life for. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a27f6a2 | She had given me my first crayons and coloring book, and had held me when I messed up, assuring me that the lines were for people with no imagination | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cee2fd2 | But I love you," Trixie said. There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them. She couldn't blame Jason; she didn't like herself like this, either. But she couldn't go back to being the girl she'd been before she met him; that girl was gone. So where did that leave her?" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8f8ba47 | She didn't like herself like this, either. But she couldn't go back to being the girl she'd been before she met him; that girl was gone. So where did that leave her? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3b363b0 | I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family. In case you cannot do the math: no one can survive with half a heart. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d3303c6 | Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0e91f43 | He shrugged. 'I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room--but eventually, you learn to live with it.' Somehow, I thought, elephants had taken it a step further. They didn't grimace every time they entered the room and saw that couch. They said, 'remember how many good memories we had here?' And they sat, for just a li.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 07fc9ba | I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 009b417 | Science never failed to humble him, just as much as his faith, and he unequivocally believed that the two could exist side by side. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2c03613 | The first time I read Gone with the Wind and Rhett walked out on Scarlett, I was fifteen and thought all that unrequited love was wildly romantic. The second time I read it, last summer, I thought she was silly and he was a selfish pig. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 27f7491 | In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d29ffb4 | It is a strange thing, being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4f08d8d | I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious. "Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register. By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart." He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "A.. | julia-romano love seven-the-bartender true-love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3e6c806 | No matter how many times you let someone go, it never got any easier. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 53748ee | whatever does happen the way it's supposed to? You don't plan life, you just do it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 84459bf | FREEDOM IS THE FRAGILE NECK of a daffodil, after the longest of winters. It's the sound of your voice, without anyone drowning you out. It's having the grace to say yes, and more important, the right to say no. At the heart of freedom, hope beats: a pulse of possibility. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 140ef00 | maybe you believe that we fall into our future blindly, drifting from adventure to adventure, our journey zigzagging not according to plan but according to pure chance. Or just maybe, as random and haphazard as our lives seems--maybe that's exactly what the author had in mind. | metaphor | Jodi Picoult | |
| 1e49fb4 | Vonita, God rest her soul, used to say that if men were the ones to get pregnant, abortion would probably be a sacrament. The Super Bowl halftime show would celebrate it. Men who had terminated pregnancies would be asked to stand and be applauded at church for the courage to make that decision. Viagra would be sold with a coupon for three free abortions. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f2d1c52 | What is ethical to a lawyer differs from what's ethical to the rest of the world. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 2b274d2 | How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. --Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8534ddf | It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person. That's what the Final Solution was all about, really. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8c5883e | The Center had suffered scars from the cuts of politicians and the barbs of protesters. It had licked its wounds and healed. At one point it had been called the Center for Women and Reproductive Health. But there were those who believed if you do not name a thing, it ceases to exist, and so its title was amputated, like a war injury. But still, it survived. First it became the Center for Women. And then, just: the Center. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1251c2e | Louie's final thought before he passed out was that this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b4377a7 | We are all just canvases for our scars. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 06c7154 | Oh, Mary said, life is mostly just what happens. Choice or chance or fate, gods or not. Like it or not. Things happen, we do what we think is in our best interests or just convenient, and then we live with the consequences. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 3aa5e4a | she claimed it's a sign of God's mercy that He won't let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can't bear and won't let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, they pale away. At least such was her thinking. God lays the unbearable on you and then takes some back. | pain unbearable | Charles Frazier | |
| 7cb083b | Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 584db52 | By now he had stared at the window through a late summer so hot and wet that the air both day and night felt like breathing through a dishrag, so damp it caused fresh sheets to sour under him and tiny black mushrooms to grow overnight from the limp pages of the book on his bedside table. Inman suspected that after such long examination, the grey window had finally said all it had to say. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 3ab2a71 | Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace. | quiet solitude woods | Charles Frazier | |
| c6fa81b | Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 6b242e1 | Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 5a9f38e | Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and use your elbow to open the door? If yes, woe unto you. You're crazy. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 832ac2b | as was true of all 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. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 1d54702 | Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever. | Charles Frazier | ||
| b092f38 | it was pointless to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the dead, for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, for you can grieve you.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| a0d3307 | Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 2e9365c | How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods.. | remembering reminiscence teenagers teens | Charles Frazier | |
| 6fa176a | A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from what it had been, barely recognizable in either tune or lyric. But you could not say the song had been improved, for as was true of all 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,.. | Charles Frazier | ||
| ae65e72 | Whether you pick well or poorly, the act of choosing carries grief. Leaves you wondering, years later, what life might have been had you chosen differently. . . . Or even wishing you'd simply paused, taken a long, deep breath. Not allowed the personal moment and the pattern of your family and your stupid culture to shove you two-handed from behind, forcing you to stumble unbalanced into the future | Charles Frazier | ||
| bddaf98 | It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 20b9826 | Never acknowledging that the general culture is often stupid or evil and would vote out God in favor of the devil if he fed them back their hate and fear in a way that made them feel righteous. | Charles Frazier | ||
| da4e0b8 | Monroe had in fact preached that God was not at all such a one as ourselves, not one to be temperamentally inclined to tread ragefully upon us until our blood flew up and stained all His white raiment, but rather that He looked on both the best and worst of mankind with weary, bemused pity. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 19aadfe | Remembering doesn't change anything--it will always have happened. But forgetting won't erase it either. | Charles Frazier |