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Jodi Picoult Inspirational Quotes (593)

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Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.
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I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.
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Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love
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The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.
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...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.
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But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.
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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you, you said with a shrug. All you have to do is say my name and I know. ...Can't you hear it? you said. When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
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I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.
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When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.
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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.
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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
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There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.
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I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.
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Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.
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I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
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History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.
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It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.
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I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
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I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.
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Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
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Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.
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it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
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