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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...
JODI PICOULT I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a ...
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...
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