You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been after wrinkles had walked long deep tracks across his face, but for many people, it was much younger. Some people said it occurred when the most important thing that would ever happen to you triggered something inside that stopped you from moving forward.


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I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why ...
JODI PICOULT
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time u...
JODI PICOULT
She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.
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.
JODI RELL
In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own.

Or at least thi...
JODI PICOULT
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep d...
JODI PICOULT
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or...
JODI PICOULT
I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
JODI PICOULT
Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d l...
JODI PICOULT
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, ...
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]?
JODI PICOULT
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the...
JODI PICOULT
The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.
JODI PICOULT
Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under...
JODI PICOULT
An oncology ward is a battlefield, and there are definite hierarchies of command. The patients, they...
JODI PICOULT
...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her...
JODI PICOULT
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that ...
JODI PICOULT
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if the...
JODI KANTOR
Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. T...
JODI PICOULT
Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in t...
JODI PICOULT
I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and ...
JODI PICOULT
Edward: "Wait--you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
JODI PICOULT
Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
JODI PICOULT
Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
JODI PICOULT
You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that ...
JODI PICOULT
Intuition is a gift from God, it is your birthright. What you do with it is your gift back.
JODI LIVON
What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis ...
JODI PICOULT
Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likel...
JODI PICOULT
When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about y...
JODI BENSON
Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially wi...
JODI BENSON
A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania's coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for ...
JODI BALFOUR
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born str...
JODI PICOULT
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have al...
JODI PICOULT
Federal law is quite clear: Air National Guard units cannot be moved without the express permission ...
JODI RELL
Tuition at our institutions of higher learning is slowly but surely being priced out of reach for mi...
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.
JODI RELL
The freedoms we grant to quasi-public agencies must not be allowed to become a license for excesses,...
JODI RELL
We danced forever, and not nearly long enough. Now that I faced him, I could touch him, too, rather ...
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.
JODI PICOULT
I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrif...
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
Lisa called me here in Alabama and told me about this. And, I'm only about 3½ hours from Hattiesbur...
JODI COLLINS
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...
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