#picoult

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#hold #hug #parent #picoult #life

You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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You can make it dark, but I can't make it light. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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