Jodi Picoult Quotes

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If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

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Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

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I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.

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Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

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Love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

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Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

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I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

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The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

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The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

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Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.

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I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

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It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

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My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

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If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

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Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

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But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

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History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

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That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

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Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

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Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

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Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

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Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed—sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

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The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

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She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

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Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

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There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

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Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

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Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

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