The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

Jodi Picoult

Categorized in : Way Hell Legal System

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

castles wall promise

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

chloe reading past

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

rocks safety feet

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the w... by Jodi Picoult

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

giving way world

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

amish casting moving

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one e... by Jodi Picoult

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

sisters-keeper my-sisters-keeper knows

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell... by Jodi Picoult

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

same-mistakes want mistake

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

found want firsts

The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

drug brain feelings

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bou... by Jodi Picoult

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

real mother dream

Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

waiting jobs world

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that... by Jodi Picoult

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

fathom dream sometimes

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

eight twenties years

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father coul... by Jodi Picoult

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

mother father past

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

heart memories two

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me for... by Jodi Picoult

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

voice forget giving

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

different stories littles

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see. by Jodi Picoult

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

look-at-me want looks

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

finding-yourself parent children

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

leaving knowing decision