Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 8

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
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because in the past words have only driven them apart.
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males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
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I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
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You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.
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I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.
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Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?
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I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)
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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
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You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?
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They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.
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Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
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I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
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Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?
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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?
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
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Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.
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It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?
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I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my life.
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But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.
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Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.
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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.
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There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
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Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.
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Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.
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well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
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Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
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Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike."What do you mean?"Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.
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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
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I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?
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No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
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Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?
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Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
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When it rains," her father said "it pours.
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When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.
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But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
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What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?
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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
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Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
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But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
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Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires
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Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
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And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
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If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
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