“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you “had love toward” her, as if itwere a physical thing you could present and hold—a bundle of tulips, a golden ring, a parcel of tenderness.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place. She stood with her hands on her hips, stoically accepting the absence of old Boston Celtics coasters and the tangle of fishing poles, the old dartboard from a Scots pub, the toolbox and downhill skis, the silky patterned ties which sat in the base of one box like a writing mass of snakes. Without these things, one tended to notice the bright eyelet curtains, the vase filled with yawning crocuses, a needlepoint pillow ... Overall, the house looked much like her apartment had eight years ago, before she had met him.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“You can't buy a clean conscience.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“Then you're the one."
Allie blinked at him. "The one what?"
"The one who loves more." ... "You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone always puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? —William Carlos Williams, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“It was tough to admit to yourself that someone else had more courage than you would in the same situation, or that it was possible to love someone in a way that you had not personally experienced.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“Virtual reality is the willing suspension of disbelief,”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“town. In the back of his”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“Did you ever look down at yourself and realise that finally you had it all? Did you ever feel that everything was so right in your life you'd have nowhere to go but downhill?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“A lie of omission was much simpler than admitting to yourself you were going against the wishes of the person you idolised.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
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“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.”
― George MacDonald, quote from Phantastes
“Clovis straightened himself. He squared his shoulders. He tossed back his curls. Then slowly, with immense dignity, he climbed the cellar steps.
“Unhand my servant, please,” he ordered the crows. “As you see, I am Finn Taverner.”
The crows let go of the Indian. They stared at the golden-haired youth who had appeared at the top of the cellar steps. The boy’s breeding showed in every movement; he was an undoubted and true aristocrat. Here before them was The Blood which Sir Aubrey longed for, and they were filled with joy.
The boy now addressed his servant. “You have served me well, Kumari,” he said--and every word was crystal clear; the words of a perfect English gentleman, speaking slowly to a foreigner. “Now I give you your freedom. And with it, this token of my thanks.”
And out of the pocket of his tunic he took a watch on a long chain which he handed to the Indian.
“But, sir,” said Mr. Trapwood, who had seen the glint of silver. “Should you--”
“I am a Taverner,” said Clovis. “And no one shall say that I am not grateful to those who have served me. And now, gentlemen, I am ready. I take it you have reserved a first-class cabin for me?”
“Well,” began Mr. Low.
Mr. Trapwood kicked his shin. “It shall be arranged, sir,” he said. “Everything will be taken care of.”
“Good. I should like to go on board immediately.”
“Yes, sir, of course. If you’ll just come with us.”
Clovis bowed to Miss Minton, then to Maia. His eyes were dry and his dignity was matchless.
Then he followed the crows out of the museum.”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from Journey to the River Sea
“For all the invisible girls and for my readers, for seeing me”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from Saint Anything
“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.”
― Anna Funder, quote from Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
“The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Drood
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