I'm so glad we'll be going down there, getting a chance to help out and do something for the animals.
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JODI PICOULT If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even...
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JODI PICOULT Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
JODI PICOULT if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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JODI MEADOWS It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
JODI PICOULT It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know...
JODI PICOULT and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with...
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JODI PICOULT A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
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JODI PICOULT You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you ...
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JODI PICOULT Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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JODI PICOULT It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
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JODI RELL We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourse...
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JODI PICOULT As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital...
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JODI PICOULT You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
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JODI PICOULT God, what had we done? It didn't really matter. Piper had been the kind of friend with whom I...
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JODI PICOULT Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.
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JODI PICOULT Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - an...
JODI PICOULT I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't und...
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JODI PICOULT The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time u...
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JODI PICOULT Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.
JODI PICOULT We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
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Or at least thi...
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JODI PICOULT Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d l...
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JODI PICOULT Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we'v...
JODI PICOULT When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
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JODI PICOULT ...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her...
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JODI PICOULT Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if the...
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Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
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JODI PICOULT Intuition is a gift from God, it is your birthright. What you do with it is your gift back.
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JODI PICOULT It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have al...
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JODI RELL When they asked Connecticut, we knew our facts and we had the documentation to back it up and it pai...
JODI RELL We have hit the crossroads today.
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JODI MEADOWS You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So y...
JODI PICOULT Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
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JODI PICOULT Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi...
JODI PICOULT See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...
JODI PICOULT I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r...
JODI BENSON What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?
JODI PICOULT Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just ...
JODI PICOULT I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giv...
JODI PICOULT I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light.
JODI LIVON You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.
JODI PICOULT Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing he...
JODI PICOULT Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and j...
JODI PICOULT Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It make...
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JODI PICOULT Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what t...
JODI PICOULT I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always unde...
JODI PICOULT When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
JODI PICOULT That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how muc...
JODI PICOULT Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.
JODI PICOULT If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can ev...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones...
JODI PICOULT We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right....
JODI PICOULT It's choice that makes us human.
JODI PICOULT What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by wha...
JODI PICOULT When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the...
JODI PICOULT The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
JODI PICOULT Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
JODI PICOULT Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
JODI PICOULT If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do...
JODI PICOULT Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i...
JODI PICOULT Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want...
JODI PICOULT It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ...
JODI PICOULT You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
JODI PICOULT Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
JODI PICOULT You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside y...
JODI PICOULT It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
JODI PICOULT How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
JODI PICOULT I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ...
JODI PICOULT I know you love me. The question is, how much?
JODI PICOULT What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge...
JODI PICOULT Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a...
JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a...
JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul...
JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ...
JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?"
We...
JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice
JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't...
JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
JODI PICOULT Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House ag...
JODI KANTOR One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every da...
JODI KANTOR The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ...
JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ...
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