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„Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN“

—  Jodi Picoult, книга Small Great Things

Источник: Small Great Things

„You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.“

—  Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Источник: Change of Heart

„The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.“

—  Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Источник: Change of Heart

„The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.“

—  Jodi Picoult, книга Sing You Home

Источник: Sing You Home

„Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.“

—  Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Источник: My Sister's Keeper

„When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.“

—  Jodi Picoult

Источник: Leaving Time

„I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.“

—  Jodi Picoult

Источник: Leaving Time

„Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.“

—  Jodi Picoult, книга Sing You Home

Источник: Sing You Home

„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

„Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.“

—  Jodi Picoult

„You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.“

—  Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Источник: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

„You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.“

—  Jodi Picoult

Источник: Mercy (1996)

„I think you can love a person too much.

You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.“

—  Jodi Picoult, книга Handle With Care

Источник: Handle with Care

„If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and out spilled a million stars, like a fountain of tears.

Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder.. But mostly it didn't, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright that the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didn't tell them, though, was that in the daytime, they'd never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky to the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness.

The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldn't fall. She spent the rest of her time holding onto whatever scraps she had left.“

—  Jodi Picoult

„When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.“

—  Jodi Picoult, книга Handle With Care

Вариант: When you love someone you let them take care of you.
Источник: Handle with Care

„I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. […] The thing is, they're both you.“

—  Jodi Picoult, книга The Pact

Источник: The Pact

„I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.“

—  Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Источник: My Sister's Keeper

„Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.“

—  Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Источник: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

„Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.“

—  Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Вариант: the people you love can surprise you every day... maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
Источник: My Sister's Keeper (2004)