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

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

weekend lunch talking

if you don't get sick, you won't get well. by Jodi Picoult

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

wells get-well sick

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

lucky want

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

swimming eye blue

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never real... by Jodi Picoult

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

this-life fit believe

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

once-upon-a-time book lying

You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?

real reading thinking

People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

real wind people

You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really... by Jodi Picoult

You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

missing loss feels

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

realizing decision thinking

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

boxes cheese like-you

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the... by Jodi Picoult

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

wow problem brain

And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

space feelings blood

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book. by Jodi Picoult

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

real may book

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the i... by Jodi Picoult

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

tip-of-the-iceberg talking character

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

dying reason stories

Who spit in your porridge? by Jodi Picoult

Who spit in your porridge?

porridge spit

She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?

want book thinking

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

want night world

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

space war people