“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
Jodi Picoult
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“Take it easy, Grace," Noah told her as he stepped into his slacks. "According to Ben she's doing fine now and is kicking up a fuss at all the attention. To quote Ben, 'She's pitching a bitch about looking old and frail.”
― Lori Foster, quote from Too Much Temptation
“The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.”
― Hermann Broch, quote from The Sleepwalkers
“The surest way of misunderstanding revelation is to take it literally, to imagine that God spoke to the prophet on a long-distance telephone. Yet most of us succumb to such fancy, forgetting that the cardinal sin in thinking about ultimate issues is literal-mindedness.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, quote from God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.”
― Derrick Jensen, quote from A Language Older Than Words
“As he clutched her in his shaking hands and wept against her, he whispered into her ear, the words that made him believe. “Love bears all things. Endures all things,” he said. “Ours has, hasn’t it?” She nodded and held him tighter. “But can it endure this, Anais? This demon who holds me so mercilessly in its claws?”
She touched his face and kissed him. “My love can and will, Lindsay. I will be here when you open your eyes. I will give you whatever you need to make it more bearable.”
― Charlotte Featherstone, quote from Addicted
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