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  • #1
    Jodi Picoult
    “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?”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #2
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #3
    Jodi Picoult
    “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
    Jodi Picoult, Mercy

  • #4
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #5
    Jodi Picoult
    “It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #6
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you love someone you let them take care of you.”
    Jodi Picoult

  • #7
    Jodi Picoult
    “In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
    In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #8
    Jodi Picoult
    “Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
    Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

  • #9
    Jodi Picoult
    “I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #10
    Jodi Picoult
    “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.”
    Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

  • #11
    Jodi Picoult
    “Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”
    Jodi Picoult

  • #12
    Jodi Picoult
    “true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #13
    Jodi Picoult
    “I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.”
    Jodi Picoult, The Pact

  • #14
    Jodi Picoult
    “When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.”
    Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

  • #15
    Jodi Picoult
    “It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #16
    Jodi Picoult
    “You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”
    Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

  • #17
    Jodi Picoult
    “Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along.”
    Jodi Picoult, The Pact

  • #18
    Jodi Picoult
    “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
    tags: love

  • #19
    Jodi Picoult
    “Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong. ”
    Jodi Picoult

  • #20
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound.
    You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart.
    You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like. ”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #21
    Jodi Picoult
    “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

  • #22
    Jodi Picoult
    “How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
    Jodi Picoult, Mercy

  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”
    Jodi Picoult

  • #24
    Jodi Picoult
    “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.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #25
    Jodi Picoult
    “Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #26
    Jodi Picoult
    “I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am...”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #27
    Jodi Picoult
    “Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #28
    Jodi Picoult
    “If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.”
    Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

  • #29
    Jodi Picoult
    “Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #30
    Jodi Picoult
    “You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
    Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls



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