Jodi Picoult Quotes

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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 everything else to come watch.

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How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

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I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

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He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

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My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

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I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

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There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

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How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

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Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

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Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

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But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

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It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

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This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

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Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

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She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

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After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

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Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

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When you look into your baby's eyes, Lacy said softly, you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won't become.

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You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

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Or. I hate that word. It's two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

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You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

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No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

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A sacrament—like marriage—means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

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