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Jodi Picoult Inspirational Quotes (592)

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Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.
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I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.
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There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
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No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
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if you don't get sick, you won't get well.
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You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.
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Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
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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.
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You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
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Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.
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I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are we just don't necessarily want them to be there
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
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I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.
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Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
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Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.
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Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.
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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
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What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
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Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
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She felt a cage coming down around her too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.
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You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
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