My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.
Jodi PicoultWhat he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.
Jodi PicoultTags: love hate forgiveness suffer
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
Jodi PicoultTags: past future yourself forgiving trap
I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whather it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
Jodi PicoultThat's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?
Jodi Picoult[Josie said] "I just ... I don't like the way you treat kids who aren't like us, all right? Just because you don't want to hang out with losers doesn't mean you have to torture them, does it?"
"Yeah, it does," Matt said. "Because if there isn't a them, there can't be an us." His eyes narrowed. "You should know that better than anyone.
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
Jodi PicoultTags: life-lessons
How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom
Jodi PicoultTags: loss
good people are good people, religion has nothing to do with it
Jodi PicoultThe person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
Jodi PicoultTags: life-lessons
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