Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way? Jodi Picoult More Quotes by Jodi Picoult More Quotes From Jodi Picoult There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. Jodi Picoult loser sides giving people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong. Jodi Picoult my-sisters-keeper people thinking It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you. Jodi Picoult my-sisters-keeper strong enough a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job. Jodi Picoult heart jobs children love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable. Jodi Picoult unattainable There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. Jodi Picoult irritation character people I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. Jodi Picoult love-you sleep heart and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart. Jodi Picoult grief heart children When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. Jodi Picoult truck bells moving Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves. Jodi Picoult parenting kids moving The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to. Jodi Picoult i-love-you falling-in-love people if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax. Jodi Picoult heart two thinking I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke. Jodi Picoult broke body heart do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses? Jodi Picoult wheels broken waiting I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever. Jodi Picoult memories two years Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you Jodi Picoult miracle reality needs That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. Jodi Picoult eye mistake men And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts. Jodi Picoult rocks running animal The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it. Jodi Picoult pieces mirrors looks 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 tattooed tongue forget
