Emily Mabaquiao > Emily's Quotes

“I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”
― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

Love isn't the only word that fails.

Hate does, too.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to potentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together?

Bread, of course.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The last photograph you had of your mother? A birthday gift from your best friend--a bookmark embroidered by her? A ticket stub from the traveling circus that had come through town two years ago, where you and your father held your breath as jeweled ladies flew through the air, and a brave man stuck his head in the mouth of a lion? Would you take them to make wherever you were going feel like home, or because you needed to remember where you had come from?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.”
― Jodi Picoult

“Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it”
― Terry Lander, Life Through the Eyes of an Insider: 101 Poems to Help You Understand Life Better

“Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that? ”
― Brian Andreas

“We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”
― Gloria Gaither

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”
― Michael Landon Jr.