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141 " When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
142 " When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else. "
― Jodi Picoult , Handle with Care
143 " It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help?I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that? "
144 " So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate? "
145 " But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else. "
― Jodi Picoult , Plain Truth
146 " The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start. "
― Jodi Picoult , Sing You Home
147 " I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. "
148 " To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed. "
― Jodi Picoult , Salem Falls
149 " What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care. "
150 " Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. "
151 " If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Pact
152 " No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back. "
153 " You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family. "
154 " Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started. "
― Jodi Picoult , Lone Wolf
155 " I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed babies on their sibling's knees—people who in real life probably were strangers brought together by a talent scout to be a phony family.Maybe it's not so different from real photos, after all. "
156 " But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours.That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with. "
― Jodi Picoult , Off the Page (Between the Lines, #2)
157 " Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves. "
― Jodi Picoult , Vanishing Acts
158 " What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead? "
― Jodi Picoult , Small Great Things
159 " Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you? "
― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)
160 " ...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more. "