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81 " Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going. "
― Jodi Picoult , Off the Page (Between the Lines, #2)
82 " Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain. "
― Jodi Picoult , Lone Wolf
83 " Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions. "
84 " If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
85 " Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish? "
― Jodi Picoult , Change of Heart
86 " The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die. "
87 " Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday. "
88 " I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names. "
― Jodi Picoult
89 " Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank. "
― Jodi Picoult , Salem Falls
90 " They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Pact
91 " Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit? "
― Jodi Picoult , Nineteen Minutes
92 " You can't edit a blank page "
93 " You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page. "
94 " It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it. "
95 " I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399) "
96 " Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart? "
97 " I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education. "
98 " You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering. "
― Jodi Picoult , Sing You Home
99 " The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool. "
100 " males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome. "
― Jodi Picoult , Picture Perfect