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The Tenth Circle QUOTES

The Tenth Circle QUOTES

1 " What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

2 " People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

3 " What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

4 " Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

5 " It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

6 " I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the other hand, is just a command to ‘go do’. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

7 " Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

8 " It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

9 " But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

10 " The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

11 " You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

12 " Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

13 " As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

14 " All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

15 " Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

16 " Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

17 " You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

18 " The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

19 " It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle

20 " The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle