Where There's Smoke Quotes

“Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean I don't. I can't explain it, I can't understand it, and I can't deny it. So I sure as hell am not gonna fight it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“There are two types of spirits. One makes the transition to the spirit realm and goes on to whatever comes next. They can still come back to connect with people who are alive, but it’s like dropping by for a visit, and then they go back to whatever it is they were happily doing in the next life. On the other hand, earthbound spirits—ghosts—are folks who pass but still have unfinished business. They feel like they’re going to be judged for something they did wrong; or they don’t know they are dead; or they are angry about being dead and not getting to finish something. They have been cheated out of life. They stay on a plane that’s closer to the plane of earth, and that’s why they’re always at the corners of our vision and the edges of our dreams. Once they complete the process and resign themselves to the fact that their time on earth is finished and they’ve done what they can do, they can move to the next level.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“There’s just some things none of us are supposed to know, until
it’s our time”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“It’s funny, how fast life changes. One minute you are present, and the next, you might find yourself futilely trying to get back to the world you were once part of. You might find yourself looking for people who can no longer hear you. You are in the world, but not of it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“The same things that trip you up as a human will tie you in knots as a spirit, if you don’t let go and let God.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“The same things that trip you up as a human will tie you in knots as a spirit, if you don’t let go and let God. Speaking of God, He’s real and He’s there, too. And don’t ask what He looks like because you wouldn’t understand even if I told you. There’s just some things none of us are supposed to know, until it’s our time.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“When I was four years old, I kept telling my mother that the little boy in our house was stealing things.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“I understand intimately how you don’t realize what you have until you lose it. Maybe holding something precious at a distance is the only way to measure its value.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“I believe everyone has spirit guides—but not everyone bothers to start a conversation with them. Spirit guides have lived as humans. They have a soul level that’s very evolved and have learned a lot of life lessons.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“And now, I understand intimately how you don’t realize what you have until you lose it. Maybe holding something precious at a distance is the only way to measure its value. The”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“Her official published findings were that memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“The afterlife is all about overlapping planes. We all live in the same physical space, but on different metaphysical levels, and someone who’s passed before you might have reached a consciousness you haven’t yet.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“Speaking of God, He’s real and He’s there, too. And don’t ask what He looks like because you wouldn’t understand even if I told you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“It’s true that when it’s time to go, someone will be waiting for you. It might be a relative or a loved one, but not always. It could be a dog, hanging out with a tennis ball and ready to play again. Sometimes, when children die, they don’t know any of their relatives who are on the other side, so they’ll have an angel or even maybe a cartoon character or Santa Claus waiting to pull them across that bridge. It’s just a manifestation of energy saying, “Come on, baby, it’s okay.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“We are all psychic to a degree. How many times do you walk into a room and just know there’s tension in there? How many times have you thought about an old friend, and then she calls? Or had a dream about your grandma and you wake up and find the lost earring you inherited from her? It’s like making a psychic telephone call: you send energy into the universe, and it comes back to you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“There are certain earthbound spirits that have no way to expend their energy or anger. They are often associated with teenage girls, who are formed of pure drama, or with those who’ve died in vain. They have been known to manipulate the elements of the earth—water, fire, wind, dust—to make their presence known.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“I believe everyone has spirit guides—but not everyone bothers to start a conversation with them. Spirit guides have lived as humans. They have a soul level that’s very evolved and have learned a lot of life lessons. (That’s the goal, you know—keep graduating to the next level, until you have a soul that is as pure as it can be.)”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“It’s funny, how fast life changes. One minute you are present, and the next, you might find yourself futilely trying to get back to the world you were once part of. You might find yourself looking for people who can no longer hear you. You are in the world, but not of”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“Someone woke up on the wrong side of the broom this morning.”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“stealing things. I should preface this by saying I was an only child—a precocious one at that. I also said I was going to live on the moon, invent glow-in-the-dark hair extensions,”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke

“emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker”
― Jodi Picoult, Where There's Smoke