The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it … some stories just don’t have a happy ending.
Jodi Picoult
Related He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful... HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes, you just have to let people go. No matter how much you don't want to and no matter how mu... RACHEL LYNNE See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ... JODI PICOULT This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how... PETER BONDRA See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world,... JODI PICOULT That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We don't really base it around good and evil or the moral impact of the story, ... We just don't inc... KRIS JAMSA If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Wh... JACK MA The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, ... YANN MARTEL Some people will leave you soon no matter how, but it's not the ending of your story, it's just the ... MAROUANE LAASSAFAR There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ... CHARLES DE LINT That?s just the character of this team. No matter how much we?re down, there?s no quit. KYLE SINGLER No matter how much I think, no matter how much I try, I can't fill this void of loneliness in my hea... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, e... VICTORIA AVEYARD We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say,... JOSS WHEDON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your bo... MEHMET OZ What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no ma... ED BRADLEY No matter how bad your past is, you still don’t want it erased. PAUL AERTKER We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and ... DONALD MILLER No matter how much feelings you may have for this person, be mindful on the decisions you make & on ... JUSTIN COX I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama... DEEPAK CHOPRA We want to show the world that no matter where you're born, no matter how poor you are, that you can... FRANK STRONACH Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring ba... KATHRYN PEREZ That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heav... ROBYN SCHNEIDER If we're just to continue with trying to see how much blood we can let out of Democrats and how much... JOHN GLENN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in ... MICHAEL ANTHONY We cannot always have what we want, no matter how much we want it, KIERSTEN WHITE It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distan... LISA SEE But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some... HARUKI MURAKAMI Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER There's always a possibility, no matter how small it is. And as long as the possibility is still the... BENING ANGGANI Because the thing about miracles is that they’re not answers, no matter how much we want them to b... ROBYN SCHNEIDER When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no m... CHASE BROOKS ...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose... AMAL EL-MOHTAR He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and com... RALPH MARSTON The thing about sex is no matter how much you crave it, you can forget it. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The problem in these cases is that fundamentally it is all just a matter of degree: How much partisa... NATHANIEL PERSILY Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one d... JODI PICOULT I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no ... HERBERT ROSENDORFER The bottom line is to try to get into as much of a rhythm as we can before that first game. No matte... KURT WARNER No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. MILAN KUNDERA No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel. JEFFREY FRY Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard ag... TESS GERRITSEN No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. YANN MARTEL A part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and-no matter how much we despised ou... KAZUO ISHIGURO What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to... MALCOLM LOWRY The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,... WILL SMITH It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't ... VANILLA ICE She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around... JODI PICOULT It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. JOHN BARTH It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him JOHN BARTH I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. GALE SAYERS When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless... ORSON SCOTT CARD It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a ... KAREN KINGSBURY How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want... DORIS LESSING An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led u... SARAH DESSEN sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart... MELISSA JENSEN A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so. STEVEN WEBER No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it. CARROLL BRYANT Some people ask why we don't just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is... MICHAEL ARRINGTON If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no m... ARSENE WENGER If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh. P.C. CAST Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what ... JOHN GREEN What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people be... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that ... KING VIDOR No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predic... ELIZABETH MOON blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much... JACK CANFIELD No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from... JODI PICOULT This is like moving two elephants. No matter how well you move it, there's still tons of weight. JUAN FERNANDEZ No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it.... MATSURI HINO Trust him. And when you have done that, you are living the life of grace. No matter what happens to ... ROBERT FARRAR CAPON Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want... JODI PICOULT Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you wan... A.J. DARKHOLME To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must t... ROGER EBERT No matter how much we love someone, or think we know them, we can never know what it is like to be i... SUZANNE LAFLEUR No matter how much we try to ignore the past,if we just don't deal with it and move on it will alway... GUNDO MULAUDZI No matter how beautiful you make it, a cage is still a cage. MAHRUKH I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come fr... MICHELLE OBAMA I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply an... ANNE LAMOTT
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JODI PICOULT I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s... JODI PICOULT When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT