Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 5

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth - it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my life.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

A sacrament-like marriage-means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike."

What do you mean?"

Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Objection!" Metz shouts.
Grounds?" the judge asks.
Well...he's my witness!

She'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.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.