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Jodi Picoult Inspirational Quotes (592)

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When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.
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Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.
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I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.
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This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
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she told me she'd be a phoenix. The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. They don't really exist. She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.
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She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.
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If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
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Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror? - That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?
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I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.
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A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.
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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.
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To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
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We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.
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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
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This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
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Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
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No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.
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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
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You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.
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I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
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The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.
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