Jodi Picoult (1966-)

Jodi Picoult quotes

• Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

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• My mother would never have left me behind, not willingly. If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to prove it.

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• Everyone deserves a happy ending.

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• When you love someone you let them take care of you.

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• He couldn’t live a life worth saving, and he couldn’t save a life worth living.

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• A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

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• You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

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• Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

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• Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.

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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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• Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

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• When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

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• I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am..

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• Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

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• Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

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• I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

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• The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

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• You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

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• Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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• When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again.

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• If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

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• Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.

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• You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.

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• I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

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• I don't get to rewrite my story; I just have to stumble to the end of it.

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• When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

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