do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses? Jodi Picoult More Quotes by Jodi Picoult More Quotes From Jodi Picoult Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back. Jodi Picoult true-lovemonthsthinking There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found. Jodi Picoult linesmissingmight ...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. Jodi Picoult choicesgoes-onpeople You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started. Jodi Picoult compassfeetwind You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him. Jodi Picoult tiltlaughingbelieve It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else. Jodi Picoult protectednicelittles Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex. Jodi Picoult alexcaretoo-late if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them. Jodi Picoult starting-overlong-agomistake I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere. Jodi Picoult nightmeanfall by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago. Jodi Picoult herobelievepast you never forget your first fall. Jodi Picoult never-forgetfallfirsts i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience. Jodi Picoult playpeoplethinking let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread. Jodi Picoult regretangelgrief when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened. Jodi Picoult blockdreamnight you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you? Jodi Picoult hatedecisionmade it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more. Jodi Picoult crazymemoriesthinking No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way. Jodi Picoult leftway There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering. Jodi Picoult rememberthinking Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief. Jodi Picoult grieftwo Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center. Jodi Picoult spacelossmoving
