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Jodi Picoult Inspirational Quotes (593)

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Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds they cut straight to the bone.
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The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
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What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?
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She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.
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If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
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Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients nurses broke it down.
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You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.
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Does fate ever play by the rules?
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But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much
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But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.
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The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
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I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
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Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.
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Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.
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You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
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The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
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Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.
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...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
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A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.
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Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
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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.
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There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.
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I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
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