All quotes by author Jodi Picoult
"There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing - light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light."
--'Change Of Heart'
"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."
"I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
--'My Sister's Keeper'
"How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, but as long as she was with him, he was at home?"
--'The Pact'
"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up."
"I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere."
--'My Sister's Keeper'
"What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars."
--'My Sister's Keeper'
"You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience."
--'Perfect Match'
"Love is not and equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed."
"When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like."
--'Nineteen Minutes'
"Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass, passed by instead."
--Jodi Picoult
'I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.'
"She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B."
--'The Pact'
"Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home."
--'Mercy'
"Love is supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it falls apart at the details. It can't save a single person."
--'Nineteen Minutes'
"There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing - light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light."
--'Change Of Heart'
"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."
"I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
--'My Sister's Keeper'
"How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, but as long as she was with him, he was at home?"
--'The Pact'
"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up."
"I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere."
--'My Sister's Keeper'
"What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars."
--'My Sister's Keeper'
"You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience."
--'Perfect Match'
"Love is not and equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed."
"When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like."
--'Nineteen Minutes'
"Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass, passed by instead."
--Jodi Picoult
'I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.'
"She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B."
--'The Pact'
"Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home."
--'Mercy'
"Love is supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it falls apart at the details. It can't save a single person."
--'Nineteen Minutes'
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