01UndatedThe scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
03UndatedI became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
04UndatedLosing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
05UndatedThey go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
06UndatedWenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
08UndatedIt seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
09UndatedI am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
10UndatedSomewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
12UndatedYou can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
13UndatedThe first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
14UndatedI lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
15Undatedmales conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
17UndatedWe make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
19Undatedbe a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
20UndatedSometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
21UndatedThere should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
22UndatedAnd if you don't find what you're looking for?"At Roy's question Addie looked up."Then all I've lost is time.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
23UndatedObjection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
24UndatedShe'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed.Jodi Picoult / quote ↗
