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“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“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

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"
Make them stay."
And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"
Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."
Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“You get through it, you just never get over it”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“Let me tell you what you feel like when you know you are ready to die.
You sleep a lot, and when you wake up the very first thought in your head is that you wish you could go back to bed.
You go entire days without eating, because food is a commodity that keeps you here.
You read the same page a hundred times.
You rewind your life like a videocassette and see the things that make you weep, things that make you pause, but nothing that makes you want to play it forward.
You forget to comb your hair, to shower, to dress.
And then one day, when you make the decision that you have enough energy left in you to do this one, last, monumental thing, there comes a peace. Suddenly you are counting moments as you haven’t for months. Suddenly you have a secret that makes you smile, that makes people say you look wonderful, although you feel like a shell-brittle and capable of cracking into a thousand pieces. ”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight