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121 " I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams. "
― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
122 " Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan. "
― Jodi Picoult , Lone Wolf
123 " Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide. "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
124 " Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven.But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehowI put it all together and figured that the food God served causedmultiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night. "
125 " Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers. "
126 " Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit. "
― Jodi Picoult , Second Glance
127 " There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. "
128 " Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly? "
― Jodi Picoult , Vanishing Acts
129 " Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl. "
130 " Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. "
131 " Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly. "
― Jodi Picoult , Small Great Things
132 " Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people. "
133 " History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller
134 " I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting. "
135 " Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. "
136 " You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed. "
― Jodi Picoult , Change of Heart
137 " There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud. "
138 " Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Pact
139 " She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess. "
140 " It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning. "
― Jodi Picoult