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101 " because in the past words have only driven them apart. "
― Jodi Picoult , Picture Perfect
102 " We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. "
― Jodi Picoult , Vanishing Acts
103 " The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story "
― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller
104 " be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. "
105 " Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. "
― Jodi Picoult , Salem Falls
106 " There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays. "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
107 " She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed. "
― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
108 " Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards. "
109 " The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store. "
110 " A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order. "
111 " If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh? "
112 " This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story. "
― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)
113 " Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer. "
114 " He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it "
― Jodi Picoult , The Pact
115 " A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you. "
116 " Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. "
117 " I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend. "
118 " I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. "
― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith
119 " It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. "
― Jodi Picoult , House Rules
120 " Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect. "