“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“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, quote from The Storyteller
“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?
Love isn't the only word that fails.
Hate does, too.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said.
My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
“She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from The Storyteller
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“He came to be very glad that he had known her, and that she had had a hand in breaking him in to life. He has known pretty women and clever ones since then,-- but never one like her, as she was in her best days. Her eyes, when they laughed for a moment into one`s own, seemed to promise a wild delight that he has not found in life. "I know where it is," they seemed to say, "I could show you!”
― Willa Cather, quote from A Lost Lady
“Just because you have blue hair and fucked-up clothes doesn’t mean you’re better than everyone
else. Because you know what? You’re just conforming to someone else’s code. Even though you don’t
wear khakis or sweaters or whatever, but to me all you guys look the same. You think you’re so
individualistic, but you’re not. You guys—you and Kim and all the rest—you’re like anti-snob snobs.
But you’re just as mean as the preppy kids. You’re all just as fucking lame.”
― Joe Meno, quote from Hairstyles of the Damned
“- Child is abused, perpetrator threatens to hurt mother. Child feels protective of mother.
- Struggle to escape perp reinforces feelings of mutual protection. It's Mom and I against the world.
- Something necessary at the time later creates "enmeshment." Child doesn't see her actions as separate from mother. Even during normal adolescent individuation. But--
- Normal individuation doesn't happen in abuse survivors. They don't feel normal, so they--
- Act out in unhealthy or self-destructive ways, which creates--
- Fear and pain for mother, which creates--
- Guilt for child who still feels responsible for mother's emotional health.
- Child seeks release from the guilt and from not feeling normal, which leads to--
- Escape to the world of other not normal people, where mother can't see her child self-destruct, which leads to--
"The bad news.”
― quote from Comeback: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back
“Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.”
― quote from The List of Seven
“He’s dreaming, Cloquet thought, as he stood over him, revolver in hand. He’s dreaming, and I exist in reality. Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.”
― Woody Allen, quote from Side Effects
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