52 Stunning Jodi Picoult Quotes That Everyone In Their Twenties Can Deeply Relate To
Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

Bianca Sparacino
February 25, 2017
February 25, 2017
“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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“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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“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
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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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“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
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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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“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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“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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“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
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“I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.”
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“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”
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“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”
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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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“You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”
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“Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?”
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“I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you’ve survived, or the minutes you’ve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.”
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“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
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“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”
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“In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.”
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“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”
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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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