01c. 1966 ADWhen your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
02c. 1966 ADMemory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
03c. 1966 ADIf you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The last photograph you had of your mother? A birthday gift from your best friend--a bookmark embroidered by her? A ticket stub from the traveling circus that had come through town two years ago, where you and your father held your breath as jeweled ladies flew through the air, and a brave man stuck his head in the mouth of a lion? Would you take them to make wherever you were going feel like home, or because you needed to remember where you had come from?Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
04c. 1966 ADThat's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next.I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
05c. 1966 ADWhere you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
06c. 1966 ADWhat I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
07c. 1966 ADLet me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
08c. 1966 ADWhat was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand.I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
09c. 1966 ADShe understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
11c. 1966 ADWhen you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
12c. 1966 ADMy first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
13c. 1966 ADI don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
14c. 1966 ADby now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
15c. 1966 ADIn half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
16c. 1966 ADEveryone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
17c. 1966 ADI don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
18c. 1966 ADSuffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
20c. 1966 ADI'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to liveJodi Picoult / quote ↗
21c. 1966 ADShe had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
22c. 1966 ADI can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
23c. 1966 ADI just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
24c. 1966 ADAnd oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fallJodi Picoult / quote ↗
