“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. ”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“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...”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
“Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from My Sister's Keeper
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“I think you're a good person," I say quietly, before slipping the bed to retrieve my clothes. He exhales, and his eyes meet mine.
"All I know is that I want to be the person you and your dad think I am. Maybe even more than I want to be a great pitcher.”
― Julie Cross, quote from Whatever Life Throws at You
“The Smile won Matthew extra time before bed, extra Christmas pudding, extra anything he wanted. Adults were helpless to resist The Smile.
Matthew gave his all to this particular smile. Butter melted. Birds sang. People slipped about dazed amid the butter and birdsong.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from Nothing but Shadows
“It made such perfect sense that I felt stupid for not thinking of it earlier. Duh. You couldn’t find the Island of Lost Things until you had gotten yourself lost beyond any hope of finding. If I’d given up an hour, or a day ago, it would have appeared that much quicker. So much for quitters never win.”
― Danielle Paige, quote from The Wicked Will Rise
“Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, quote from Report to Greco
“Until the song is sung and the musicians have all gone home, not even you can tell which notes made the melody.”
― Karen Miller, quote from The Innocent Mage
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