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Keeping Faith QUOTES

Keeping Faith QUOTES

1 " I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

2 " My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

3 " This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

4 " Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

5 " The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

6 " If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

7 " 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

8 " Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

9 " You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

10 " The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

11 " I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

12 " She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

13 " People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

14 " There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

15 " I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

16 " They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

17 " Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

18 " My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White) "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

19 " The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith

20 " maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential. "

― Jodi Picoult , Keeping Faith