01UndatedShe shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
02UndatedA mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
03UndatedSee, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in itJodi Picoult / quote ↗
04UndatedSometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
05UndatedYou know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
06UndatedIf we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
07UndatedLove was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
08UndatedLike a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
09UndatedAnd I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
10UndatedAnxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
11UndatedWhen I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the firesJodi Picoult / quote ↗
12UndatedThe truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped liesJodi Picoult / quote ↗
14UndatedIf she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
15UndatedBut love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
16UndatedWhen you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
17UndatedWords got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
18UndatedBeing a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
19UndatedIt never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
20UndatedWhat would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
21UndatedA lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
22UndatedBut memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
