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

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.

daughter husband beautiful

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

wall lying reality

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

half believe way

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

insane nine names

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education. by Jodi Picoult

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

degrees may

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday. by Jodi Picoult

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

my-birthday cancer kind

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me of... by Jodi Picoult

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

julia cliffs

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone... by Jodi Picoult

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

healed grief earth

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re... by Jodi Picoult

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

between-the-lines once-upon-a-time lying

Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck

girl here-i-am book

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

imagine would-be knows

That,” she says, “was never here before. by Jodi Picoult

That,” she says, “was never here before.

I'm weird. Everyone says so. by Jodi Picoult

I'm weird. Everyone says so.

He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

guy squares reading

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

regret reading book

I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.

leaving missing baby

The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

twelve should-have mean

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

breathing long lying

I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship may be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better that the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life.

falling-in-love mean believe

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

glasses real water