|

|

Advertisements

Jodi Picoult Quotes

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? Picture Quote #1

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn’t have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn’t have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path Picture Quote #1

My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown Picture Quote #1

Think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman Picture Quote #1

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger’s. Like me, they’re very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

The Lord turned water into wine. All I’m suggesting is a trip to the grocery store Picture Quote #1

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return Picture Quote #1

There are so many things I can’t believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I’ll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don’t have contingencies and conditions Picture Quote #1

Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can’t-and you’ll be right everytime Picture Quote #1

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night Picture Quote #1

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn’t wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn’t really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation Picture Quote #1

How do you walk into someone’s life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off Picture Quote #1

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down Picture Quote #1

The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I’d had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings Picture Quote #1

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don’t necessarily want them to be there Picture Quote #1

My mother walks forward. She’s crying, but there’s a smile on her face. For God’s sake, is it any wonder I can’t ever understand what you people are feeling? Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don’t need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I’ll come back as catnip Picture Quote #1

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA Picture Quote #1

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started Picture Quote #1

I know that there will be other women, but they couldn’t compare. Maybe I’ll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that’s why I am not more upset. You can’t possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last Picture Quote #1

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be Picture Quote #1

This isn’t a lie, actually. I don’t care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn’t enough to make him stay Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Religion isn’t in your DNA. you don’t believe just because your parents believe Picture Quote #1

Power isn’t about doing something terrible to someone who’s weaker than you, Reiner. It’s having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to Picture Quote #1

The reason I am still sitting at Josef’s kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can’t let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it Picture Quote #1

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora’s box, a story that’s freely given can’t be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on Picture Quote #1

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?’ She shakes her head. ‘All of that, and the world didn’t learn anything. Look around. There’s still ethnic cleansing. There’s discrimination Picture Quote #1

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others Picture Quote #1

1 - 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 - 30

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself (Jodi Picoult Quotes) There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? (Jodi Picoult Quotes) But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn’t have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn’t have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path (Jodi Picoult Quotes) My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman (Jodi Picoult Quotes) On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger’s. Like me, they’re very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone (Jodi Picoult Quotes) The Lord turned water into wine. All I’m suggesting is a trip to the grocery store (Jodi Picoult Quotes) All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return (Jodi Picoult Quotes) There are so many things I can’t believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I’ll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don’t have contingencies and conditions (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can’t-and you’ll be right everytime (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn’t wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn’t really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation (Jodi Picoult Quotes) How do you walk into someone’s life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down (Jodi Picoult Quotes) The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I’d had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings (Jodi Picoult Quotes) I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don’t necessarily want them to be there (Jodi Picoult Quotes) My mother walks forward. She’s crying, but there’s a smile on her face. For God’s sake, is it any wonder I can’t ever understand what you people are feeling? (Jodi Picoult Quotes) You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don’t need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I’ll come back as catnip (Jodi Picoult Quotes) I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started (Jodi Picoult Quotes) I know that there will be other women, but they couldn’t compare. Maybe I’ll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that’s why I am not more upset. You can’t possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be (Jodi Picoult Quotes) This isn’t a lie, actually. I don’t care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn’t enough to make him stay (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Religion isn’t in your DNA. you don’t believe just because your parents believe (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Power isn’t about doing something terrible to someone who’s weaker than you, Reiner. It’s having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to (Jodi Picoult Quotes) The reason I am still sitting at Josef’s kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can’t let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora’s box, a story that’s freely given can’t be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on (Jodi Picoult Quotes) History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?’ She shakes her head. ‘All of that, and the world didn’t learn anything. Look around. There’s still ethnic cleansing. There’s discrimination (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others (Jodi Picoult Quotes)

1 - 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 - 30