Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness. Jodi Picoult More Quotes by Jodi Picoult More Quotes From Jodi Picoult I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it. Jodi Picoult grief loss past Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart? Jodi Picoult together doe people 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 doctors judging nurse You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough. Jodi Picoult live-and-let-live enough You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control. Jodi Picoult stills And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong. Jodi Picoult first-time firsts thinking Does fate ever play by the rules? Jodi Picoult fate doe play There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it. Jodi Picoult drowning ocean want I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing. Jodi Picoult things-to-do fitting stills What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it? Jodi Picoult stronger law needs But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes? Jodi Picoult what-if drug years Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. Jodi Picoult priceless honesty needs Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles. Jodi Picoult soap-bubbles lines honor Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you. Jodi Picoult running-away running thinking Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees Jodi Picoult happy-endings everyday tree How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen? Jodi Picoult believe facts world Love makes life a little brighter Jodi Picoult brighter littles I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life Jodi Picoult limits world thinking I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me Jodi Picoult flaws perfect thinking It takes two people to make a friendship work Jodi Picoult two people
