Then you're the one." Allie blinked at him. "The one what?" "The one who loves more." ... "You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone always puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
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JODI PICOULT Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that th... JODI PICOULT It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, ... JODI PICOULT You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank p... JODI PICOULT You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control. JODI PICOULT The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ev... JODI PICOULT Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing somethin... JODI PICOULT They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out? JODI PICOULT What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on... JODI PICOULT There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition... JODI PICOULT Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under... JODI PICOULT ...People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her... JODI PICOULT words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that ... JODI PICOULT I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m... JODI PICOULT Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can n... JODI PICOULT I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.... JODI PICOULT I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I shou... JODI PICOULT I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to g... JODI PICOULT But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By def... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how be... JODI PICOULT Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan. JODI PICOULT Life is not a plot; it's in the details. JODI PICOULT Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver ... JODI PICOULT No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged. JODI PICOULT The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does ... JODI PICOULT You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me. JODI PICOULT I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure... JODI PICOULT A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me ... JODI PICOULT I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to mea... JODI PICOULT When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. JODI PICOULT When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a ... JODI PICOULT Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a... JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul... JODI PICOULT Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or ... JODI PICOULT