Hollow Bones Quotes

“Everyday you die again. While I’m driving Or shopping Or pretending to watch tv. It hits me and I forget How to breathe. Somedays, I can sneak by without you dying. Just quietly skate past it. Tiptoe around it like a mouse. But most days, it’s a bull And I am wearing red.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“A photo is a moment in time. You can't tell what happened seconds before.
You certainly can't tell what happened years later.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“Nobody leaves this life the same way they started.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“The world is ending, and all we can do is watch.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“They have hollow bones,” Mama explained. “It's what makes birds so fragile. But it's also what makes it possible to fly.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“It was easier to work with broken things, because like calls to like.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“Here is the other thing I love about mosaics: they take broken things and make them beautiful.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“A lie is a sinkhole. The more you try to dig yourself out of it, the deeper you’re stuck.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“how the absence of a person can be larger than the presence of others in your life; how grief recedes but loss is exponential; how there’s always a tickle in the back of your mind, like a melody whose notes you’ve forgotten. How you can be doing the most innocuous thing, like watching a little girl and her mother getting matching glittery pink manicures, and realize that you are crying. Or how, during a run, a stitch in your chest might double you over not because you are out of breath but because you are alive, and someone else is not.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“The mama robin gave it a nudge and it started to torpedo—until its wings beat like a second heart, and it rose into the sky. “They have hollow bones,” Mama explained. “It’s what makes birds so fragile. But it’s also what makes it possible to fly.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“A photo is a moment in time. You can’t tell what happened seconds before. You certainly can’t tell what happened years later.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“In one little human life, there are so many moments that shatter and remake you. The cracks become so ubiquitous, it’s hard to imagine that once, there was a whole, unbroken version of you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“Call it reinvention, reincarnation, resurrection. Or call it science: Love, I think, is like any other energy. It can’t be destroyed. It can only come back to you, when you least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“How do you say goodbye in Navajo?” “There isn’t a word for it. Goodbye means gone. We say hágoónee’—I’ll see you again. Because no one ever really goes away permanently, do they? Something they said or did always sticks with you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“You have to see hope to have hope.” Molly reaches in to touch the bark. “It’s called the Survivor Tree.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“There’s something called the burnt toast theory—it’s when a minor inconvenience, like burning your toast, might keep you from experiencing a bigger disaster. Because you spent another sixty seconds toasting a fresh piece of bread, you weren’t at an intersection where there was a bad car crash.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“Ithink we all evolve over the course of our lives. We are a child, an adult, a parent. We painstakingly remake ourselves from students into professionals. We accumulate labels: daughter, wife, widow, orphan. We become mirrors for some people, and magnets for others. We get polished and sanded by our encounters with the world. Nobody leaves this life the same way they started.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“broken mirrors.” I remember shattering them for the mosaic, setting them so that even while people were looking at the art, they were seeing a distorted picture of themselves. Now, I realize that’s how I saw myself, after giving birth.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“It was a five-foot-tall heart-shaped mirror fashioned of glass shards tightly fitted together; although the surface looked seamless, the reflection was warped. But if you looked closely, you could make out the intentional cracks between certain pieces in the shape of the venae cavae and aorta, ventricles and atria.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“There are patterns we have worn like ruts into our lives. It’s much easier to tell ourselves we are moving forward, and not in circles.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“It’s much easier to see what we want to see, to tell ourselves we are moving forward, and not in circles.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“We reinvent people to make them fit what we want to believe about them.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“It’s easy to love someone you’ve put on a pedestal,” he says. “But it’s a lot more impressive to love someone you haven’t.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“Tragedy gilds victims,”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“It makes me wonder if there is a monster in all of us, just waiting to surface.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“Because if he left, she had told me, there’d be a hole in you shaped like him that nobody else could fill.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“How you died defines you for a moment. How you lived…well, that defines you forever.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“In the mirror, I stare at the silver lines on the edges of my belly and think about how strange and powerful it is to create a human being. No wonder men have tried to keep women in their place for centuries. We have magic.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“But even a hero needs a soft place to land.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones

“Some fires are built to consume. Others you tend so they can keep you warm forever.”
― Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones