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Jodi Picoult Inspirational Quotes (592)

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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
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There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
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There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
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I can give or take elephants I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.
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The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
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Kid says to me, You play baseball? What position? Left out? and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.
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If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
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There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.
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After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.
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The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
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Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
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As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.
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Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
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Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.
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When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.
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and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
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Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
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In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.
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in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.
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There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.
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I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.
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Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.
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