The Tenth Circle Quotes

“Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place. ”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t. ”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"

When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot.

They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“The age wasn't as important as the milestones.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“Until then she hadn't considered that there was a trade off, that she might not fit anymore in places where she'd been comfortable.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“He called dreams a 'royal road' into the unconscious, made up of all forbidden wishes you had and you wished you didn't”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle