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Jodi Picoult Inspirational Quotes (592)

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True love can break the most powerful curse
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be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.
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You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.
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Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.
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Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time.-Amelia
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the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.
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My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)
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You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.
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Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
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If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
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You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
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He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.
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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
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I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.
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I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.
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You get through it, you just never get over it
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As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
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I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it you can patch it smooth and clear but you always know what's hidden underneath.
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I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)
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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
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