Jodi Picoult

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life-lesson #pretend #change

Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#faith

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#silence #friendship

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #inspirational

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#honesty #secrets #honesty

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-determination

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beauty

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#prayer #wish #inspirational

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#obsession #love

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#prayer #change