It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.
Jodi PicoultTags: more-like-a-poultice
He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes.
Jodi PicoultTags: the-storyteller
I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.
Jodi PicoultPeople have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
Jodi PicoultEach memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.
Jodi PicoultIf history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
Jodi PicoultI believe in Hell...but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.
Jodi PicoultI don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.
Jodi PicoultTags: inspirational
Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.
Jodi PicoultTags: which-one-will-smite-the-other
History isn’t about dates and places and wars. It’s about the people who fill the spaces between them.
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