Jodi Picoult Quotes

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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

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You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

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As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

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The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

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That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

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What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

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There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing — light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

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She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

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On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

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Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she's in for the one in which I'm stuck

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Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

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I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

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It was a catch-22: If you didn't put the trauma behind you, you couldn't move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...

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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

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In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

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There's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

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For someone who can't remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can't forget.

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It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

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Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

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I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

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Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

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