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 More Quotes by Jodi Picoult More Quotes From Jodi Picoult Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you? Jodi Picoult fate people thinking If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all. Jodi Picoult parking answers window for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place. Jodi Picoult dollars house doe Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person. Jodi Picoult love-is fall moving Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it. Jodi Picoult stills remember long If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason. Jodi Picoult instinct reason wanted If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up. Jodi Picoult wall imagination men To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself. Jodi Picoult like-something reality looks A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others. Jodi Picoult moral men way Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not. Jodi Picoult determined darkness window Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. Jodi Picoult trust jumping faith What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next? Jodi Picoult vanishing what-if next Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. Jodi Picoult rainbow lost-love beautiful I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move. Jodi Picoult lightning dumb moving I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am. Jodi Picoult feel-better who-i-am want If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related. Jodi Picoult pockets enough long Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they? Jodi Picoult insomniac highways The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit. Jodi Picoult apples long years They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick. Jodi Picoult sick attention blood Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together. Jodi Picoult were-not-meant-to-be together littles
