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61 " What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along? "
― Jodi Picoult , Off the Page (Between the Lines, #2)
62 " A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead. "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
63 " But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. "
― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
64 " When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong. "
65 " Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board. "
66 " Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest? "
67 " No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged. "
68 " A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. "
69 " well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. "
70 " Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things. "
― Jodi Picoult , Lone Wolf
71 " Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me. "
― Jodi Picoult , Sing You Home
72 " There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. "
― Jodi Picoult , Nineteen Minutes
73 " There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations "
74 " Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. "
75 " If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? "
― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith
76 " When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. "
― Jodi Picoult , Vanishing Acts
77 " But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you. "
― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)
78 " Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning. "
79 " I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my life. "
80 " It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from? "