I love feeling loved.
I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place.
I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone.
I don't love the fact that it's not always.
I love not having to answer to him.
I don't love that he doesn't answer to me.
I love the way I feel when I am with him.
I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.
You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
Jodi PicoultThe first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.
Jodi PicoultTags: question victim dreamer bully visionary who-you-are
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?
Jodi PicoultTags: life think remember moments forever know matter minutes happens minute world-moves
She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.
Jodi PicoultTags: lies language mouth speak remembered native-tongue string
Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall.
That's what it feels like to want a drink.
It is amazing how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.
Jodi PicoultSeems indecisive, doesn't it? Either be a period or be a comma, but make up your mind.
Jodi PicoultYou cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.
Jodi PicoultSometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be dissappointed.
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