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Jodi Picoult Inspirational Quotes (593)

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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
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We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
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One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
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How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
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The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.
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And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
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i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.
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The truth doesn't always set you free people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
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So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.
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I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.
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To say there had been a loss was ludicrous one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.
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I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
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A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.
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Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.
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She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.
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How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.
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People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
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Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.
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And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it
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But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.
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