Jodi Picoult Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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