Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 7

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help?I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?
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When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.
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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.
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It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning.
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Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.
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She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.
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There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.
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You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.
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Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.
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History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.
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History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.
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Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans," I say. "Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
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Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
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Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.
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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.
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And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.
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Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.
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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back."But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky.To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.
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Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.
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Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?
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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.
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Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.
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Go fuck yourself Judge.""Motion denied." answers the judge dryly.
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Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
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Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven.But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehowI put it all together and figured that the food God served causedmultiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
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Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
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Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.
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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
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It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
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I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.
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Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
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A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
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He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it
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Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
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This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
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I've got a Don Baylor," J.T. said."California sucks this year."Ralph snickered. "I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.
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So what do you think the physical effect was?"Roman Laughed. "Buddy," he said, "she was tripping.
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If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?
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A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.
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You'd be surprised." Charlie said."You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit.""What the hell is Limp Bizkit?
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The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
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Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
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She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed.
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Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!
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I've got a Don Baylor," J.T. said."California sucks this year."Ralph snickered. "I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.
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So what do you think the physical effect was?"Roman Laughed. "Buddy," he said, "she was tripping.
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If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?
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A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.
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You'd be surprised." Charlie said."You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit.""What the hell is Limp Bizkit?
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The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
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Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
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She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed.
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Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!
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And if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.
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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.
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Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
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be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
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