Picture Perfect
Jodi Picoult
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”
“There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.”
“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”
“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”
“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”
“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”
“It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.”
“They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.”
“There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.”
“There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.”
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Book Keywords:
lovers, sacrifice, love, love-story, abuse, life, relationship, assumptions, hurt
