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“So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Frankly, people don't make sense to me.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“I mean, who the hell has a turret on their house, besides Rapunzel?”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Sometimes the hardest thing to hear is the truth.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"
I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one he’ll never forget.”
“You are to me,” I say.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Only the liar knows he's lying”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“I've met so many parents of the kids who are on the low end of the autism spectrum, kids who are diametrically opposed to Jacob, with his Asperger's. They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else but truly doesn't know how.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Mothers are supposed to be their children's biggest cheerleaders. Mothers are supposed to believe in their children, no matter what. Mothers will lie to themselves, if necessary, to do this.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“I suppose there's only so many times you can take being rebuffed before you need some validation.”
― Jodi Picoult , House Rules

“It is not hard. Don’t you dare tell us this is hard. Quitting heroin is hard. Beating cancer is hard. Drinking your coffee black. Is. Not. Hard.”
― Melissa Hartwig, The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom

“Trump has spent his life defining his manliness in opposition to the women he dominates and degrades.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“humanizing men, even those who might dehumanize women.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Women’s dress codes at work and school are often cloaked in rhetoric about not “distracting” men”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“We need a new cultural definition of masculinity.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Do what you can. Nothing more and nothing less.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“even when women are in the spotlight, men are often in control behind the scenes.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“men who happily enjoy misogynist porn in private feel equally free to shame women who dare to breastfeed in public.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“find the cracks in the gates and wedge them open wider,”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Why can’t we see how important it is for boys to identify with and look up to complex, badass women?”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“pretty websites don’t sell things. Words sell things.”
― Donald Miller, Summary of Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller

“In every line of copy we write, we’re either serving the customer’s story or descending into confusion; we’re either making music or making noise.”
― Donald Miller, Summary of Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller