Jodi Picoult
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Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.
From Sing You Home
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
From Sing You Home
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
From The Tenth Circle
I 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.
"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.
From My Sister's Keeper
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
From Nineteen Minutes
The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
From Lone Wolf
The 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.
From Lone Wolf
Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place.
When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
From A Spark of Light
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
From Keeping Faith
What you know isn't nearly as important as who you know. Who will miss you. Who you will miss.
From The Book of Two Ways
because in the past words have only driven them apart.
From Picture Perfect
Somewhere 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?
From Change of Heart
Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
From Sing You Home
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
From My Sister's Keeper
males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
From Picture Perfect
I 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)
From Change of Heart
When 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 fires
From My Sister's Keeper
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.
From The Pact
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
From Change of Heart
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
From Sing You Home
I think that you can love more than one person in a lifetime. There's the one who teaches you what love is, even if it doesn't last. … And then there's the one who makes you a better human than you were, even as you do the same form him. … And then there's the last one ... The one that you never get enough time with. But who sees you through to the end.
From The Book of Two Ways
It 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.
From Change of Heart
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.
From Sing You Home
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
From Sing You Home
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
From The Tenth Circle
I 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.
"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.
From My Sister's Keeper
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
From Nineteen Minutes
The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
From Lone Wolf
The 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.
From Lone Wolf
Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place.
When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
From A Spark of Light
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
From Keeping Faith
What you know isn't nearly as important as who you know. Who will miss you. Who you will miss.
From The Book of Two Ways
because in the past words have only driven them apart.
From Picture Perfect
Somewhere 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?
From Change of Heart
Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
From Sing You Home
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
From My Sister's Keeper
males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
From Picture Perfect
I 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)
From Change of Heart
When 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 fires
From My Sister's Keeper
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.
From The Pact
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
From Change of Heart
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
From Sing You Home
I think that you can love more than one person in a lifetime. There's the one who teaches you what love is, even if it doesn't last. … And then there's the one who makes you a better human than you were, even as you do the same form him. … And then there's the last one ... The one that you never get enough time with. But who sees you through to the end.
From The Book of Two Ways
It 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.
From Change of Heart
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.
From Sing You Home
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
From Sing You Home
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
From The Tenth Circle
I 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.
"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.
From My Sister's Keeper
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
From Nineteen Minutes
The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
From Lone Wolf
The 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.
From Lone Wolf
Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place.
When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.
From A Spark of Light
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
From Keeping Faith
What you know isn't nearly as important as who you know. Who will miss you. Who you will miss.
From The Book of Two Ways
because in the past words have only driven them apart.
From Picture Perfect
Somewhere 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?
From Change of Heart
Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
From Sing You Home
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
From My Sister's Keeper
males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
From Picture Perfect
I 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)
From Change of Heart
When 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 fires
From My Sister's Keeper
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.
From The Pact
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.
From Change of Heart
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
From Sing You Home
I think that you can love more than one person in a lifetime. There's the one who teaches you what love is, even if it doesn't last. … And then there's the one who makes you a better human than you were, even as you do the same form him. … And then there's the last one ... The one that you never get enough time with. But who sees you through to the end.
From The Book of Two Ways
It 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.
From Change of Heart
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