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41 " Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner. "
― Jodi Picoult , Perfect Match
42 " The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come. "
― Jodi Picoult , Lone Wolf
43 " A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations. "
― Jodi Picoult , Nineteen Minutes
44 " See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
45 " Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. "
― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith
46 " You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Pact
47 " If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. "
48 " Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey. "
― Jodi Picoult
49 " Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. "
50 " And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. "
― Jodi Picoult , Change of Heart
51 " Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. "
― Jodi Picoult , Sing You Home
52 " When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires "
53 " The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies "
54 " Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true. "
― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)
55 " If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. "
― Jodi Picoult , Plain Truth
56 " But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. 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. "
― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
57 " When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. "
58 " Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry. "
59 " Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. "
60 " It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. "