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

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That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yo... by Jodi Picoult

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

crazy lying fall

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to lo... by Jodi Picoult

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

hate knows might

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know... by Jodi Picoult

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

hiding persons looks

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

eric silence heart

Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean... by Jodi Picoult

Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

ocean asking son

The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

judging mother children

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

forever moving thinking

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

kids children thinking

Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

ice-water jumping fall

The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.

sea feelings thinking

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all ab... by Jodi Picoult

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

whole-life what-if whole

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not cari... by Jodi Picoult

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

lawyer caring enough

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die. by Jodi Picoult

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

entropy jacob rooms

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

remember looks way

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are... by Jodi Picoult

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

people

Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.

eye heart song

Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

wall paper mouths

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

matter dark watches

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

librarian taught looks

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

lost may way