Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult

Top 10 Best Quotes

“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”

“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”

“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

“You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”

“It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.”

“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

“Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.”

“If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.”

“Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”

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