Larger Than Life Quotes

“There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you do not get vacation time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube. But most of us would have a hard time saying it didn’t exist.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“You’re a fixer, Grant mused. You’re also a colossal pain in the ass. The thing is, it’s the pains in the ass that change the world.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies. But there is one exception: In a year when there are limited resources— a drought, say, or a herd that has grown too big to sustain feeding all its members in a given area— the matriarch may make the decision to split the group. She will lead some of the elephants off in one direction, and her daughter will lead the rest on another route. They are still family, but they know that being together will bring about high mortality for the herd, that there is a better chance of survival when they aren’t competing for the same resources. But things change. When the land blossoms and the rivers run flush again, the mother and daughter reunite. It’s a celebration, a fanfare. There is trumpeting, roaring, touching, stroking. It’s like they have never been apart.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“What we could not see clearly, we didn’t have to pretend to understand.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“I wonder, when women who buy beautiful ivory jewelry fasten those elaborate pendants around their throats, if they are choked by sadness.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“As it turns out, you can love someone too much. Then, when they leave, your heart goes missing. And no on can survive that great a loss.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“When the matriarch is gone, so is the herd’s collective memory.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“It’s so easy to forget,’ she murmured, ‘how underneath, we’re all exactly the same.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“As it turns out, you can love someone too much. Then, when they leave, your heart goes missing. And no one can survive that great a loss.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child. And”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“I didn’t plan to love you. And by the time I knew I did, I couldn’t tell you what you deserved to know.” He hesitates, his face shuttered. “I never wanted to hurt you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“When the land blossoms and the rivers run flush again, the mother and daughter reunite. It’s a celebration, a fanfare. There is trumpeting, roaring, touching, stroking. It’s like they have never been apart.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“The matriarch is a knot that holds together a rope made of many strings. Cut the rope below the knot, and it unravels.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“For someone who knows so much about the
brain,” my mother says, “you know absolutely nothing about the
heart.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies. But there is one exception: In a year when there are limited resources—a drought, say, or a herd that has grown too big to sustain feeding all its members in a given area—the matriarch may make the decision to split the group. She will lead some of the elephants off in one direction, and her daughter will lead the rest on another route.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“I think about the moon, which is always in the sky, but only comes to life when she is wrapped in the arms of the night.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“Without a matriarch—a mother figure—they developed behavioral issues that we researchers had never seen.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“They became abnormally aggressive in the absence of the social guidance they would have been given by a matriarch in the wild.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“the vet will be here by Sunday, and Karen Trendler agreed”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“I’m crying for all the things we lose that we cannot get back.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“You’re also a colossal pain in the ass. The thing is, it’s the pains in the ass that change the world.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“But poaching was no longer a trickle; it had become a flood.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“Yet there have been too many times in the past year when I’ve wondered if that might just be an excuse for not having to be held responsible when something goes terribly wrong.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“It is a fact universally acknowledged that it’s impossible to stay furious in close proximity to a newborn elephant.”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“not. Maybe it is the noise I’m making, maybe it is just a shift in the wind that carries the scent of me—too human—across the bush. But suddenly there is a rustling sound”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life

“am looking for signs of life, although I know I won’t find them. I’m not sure how the poachers took this herd down. They use guns and spears, sometimes arrows poisoned with acokanthera. I’ve”
― Jodi Picoult, Larger Than Life