Jodi Picoult
"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going."
79 Quotes
"If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going."
"إن لم نغير المسار الذي نسلكه، فسنصل حتماً إلى حيث نتجه."
Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
"This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder"
"هذا هو الحب، على ما أظن. مكانٌ قد يتشابك فيه المنفردون كالصقور، فيدورون في الجو، تملؤهم الدهشة والذهول من هذا الارتباط. مكانٌ تمضي إليه طوعًا، وبكل إعجاب."
Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith
"“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”"
"أتعلم كيف أن لاعب السيرك على الحبل المشدود يود لو يصدق الجميع أن فعله فن، لكنك في أعماقك ترى أنه في الحقيقة لا يرجو سوى أن يبلغ الضفة الأخرى بسلام؟"
Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
"It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time."
"إنه لشرف عظيم لي أن أتمكن، وآمل، من تغيير العالم ولو قليلاً، عقلاً تلو الآخر."
Jodi Picoult
"I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess."
"أشعر أنني أستطيع التخلص من أي شياطين كامنة في أعماق نفسي عبر الكتابة، مما يحررني لأبدع كل هذا وأستمتع بحياتنا الأسرية، مبتعدًا عن كل الصدمات والدراما المتخيلة. فإذا كتبت عن أسرة في أزمة، فلن أضطر لعيشها، على ما أظن."
Jodi Picoult
"I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack."
"استيقظتُ ذات صباحٍ أفكر في الذئاب، فأدركتُ أن قطعان الذئاب تعمل كالعائلات تماماً. لكل فردٍ دورٌ، وإذا التزم كلٌ بحدود دوره، نجح القطيع بأكمله. وحين يتصدّع هذا النظام، يتصدّع القطيع معه."
Jodi Picoult
"There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays."
Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
"Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions."
Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith
"“You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.”"
Jodi Picoult
Sing You Home
"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."
Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
"Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom."
Jodi Picoult
Second Glance
"“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”"
Jodi Picoult
"The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies"
Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith
"“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”"
Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
"I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, Ian whispers. I think we just do."
Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith
"If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)"
Jodi Picoult
"If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)"
Jodi Picoult
"When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw."
Jodi Picoult
"“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”"
Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith
"I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade."
Jodi Picoult
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