Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 8

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It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

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A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

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What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

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I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

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

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eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

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Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

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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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That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

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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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Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

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I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

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You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

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I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

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There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

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He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

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What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

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Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

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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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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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We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

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What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

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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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How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

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Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

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I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

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Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

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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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In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

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It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

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Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

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Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

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You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

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This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

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When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

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We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

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It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

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His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

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As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

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So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

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She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

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Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

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What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

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To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

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You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him