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 There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition. Jodi Picoult human-condition reason want There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far. Jodi Picoult falling-in-love grief children When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? Jodi Picoult first-love care love-is If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it. Jodi Picoult ifs pay anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information. Jodi Picoult know-how information knows You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive. Jodi Picoult pain air running I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day. Jodi Picoult vases cracks together Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick. Jodi Picoult growing-up sick voice As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then? Jodi Picoult judging names want A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod. Jodi Picoult heroin eyebrows boys My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered. Jodi Picoult mother long moving Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse) Jodi Picoult couple night thinking I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly. Jodi Picoult love-is looks way You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Jodi Picoult guy believe art Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me? Jodi Picoult helping-someone believe hands You can make it dark, but I can't make it light. Jodi Picoult i-can light dark If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go? Jodi Picoult ifs You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go. Jodi Picoult home jobs children There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking. Jodi Picoult ifs There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against. Jodi Picoult protect-yourself protect weapons
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