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181 " The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on. "
― Jodi Picoult , Plain Truth
182 " History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller
183 " Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down. "
― Jodi Picoult , Vanishing Acts
184 " It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces. "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
185 " I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Pact
186 " If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made. "
― Jodi Picoult , Perfect Match
187 " Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. "
188 " A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. "
― Jodi Picoult , Salem Falls
189 " In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future. "
― Jodi Picoult , Change of Heart
190 " You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong. "
― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith
191 " There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions. "
― Jodi Picoult , Sing You Home
192 " I sigh. “But if you’d talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . .” My voice trails off.“Then you wouldn’t feel quite so crazy?” Oliver asks gently. “Can’t you believe in me, if I believe in you? "
― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)
193 " People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle
194 " The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak. "
195 " Words, he knew, could scar. "
196 " But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination. "
― Jodi Picoult , Off the Page (Between the Lines, #2)
197 " You don't have to say I love you to say I love you. "
― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
198 " The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. "
199 " Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. "
200 " Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. "