Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 4

You 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.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.

I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said.

My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

A 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.

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

When it rains," her father said "it pours.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations