Jodi Picoult Quotes

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It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

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What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

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Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

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And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

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Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

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I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry.

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There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

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There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

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What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.

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If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

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You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

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You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

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It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

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Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

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Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

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You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

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I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

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Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

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There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

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Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

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I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

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And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

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