Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
― Jodi Picoult

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

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

“I’m the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“You can have the best intentions, but the moment there’s a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Dreaming is the closest the average human gets to the paranormal plane; it’s the time when the mind lets down its guard and the walls get thin enough for there to be glimpses to the other side. That’s why, after sleeping, so many people report a visit from someone who’s passed.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“I don't get to rewrite my story; I just have to stumble to the end of it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“the universe wants from us is two things: don’t do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it … some stories just don’t have a happy ending.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“I had not asked to be rescued, true, but that did not mean I didn't need saving.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Where there is support, there is no grief.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.”
― Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

“Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“You have ink in your blood, boy, and no help for it. Books will never be just a business to you.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“We never wanted to conquer the world, only our fears.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“For a perversion of knowledge is surely worse than a lack of it”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“I know my son."

"Our son."

"Yes. Our son."
More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret