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Birthday: | May 19, 1966 |
Educated At: | Harvard University, Princeton University |
Nationality: | American, United States Of America |
Occupations: | Novelist, Writer |
Total quotes: 108
Jodi Picoult
BirthnameBirthday: May 19, 1966
Educated At: Harvard University, Princeton University
Nationality: American, United States Of America
Occupations: Novelist, Writer
Total quotes: 108
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
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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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“True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
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“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”
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“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
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“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”
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“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”
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“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”
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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
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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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“It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth.”
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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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“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
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“You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”
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“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”
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“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
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“There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”
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“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
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“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
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said to exes, Broken Heart
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
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“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
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“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
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“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
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“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
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