Jodi Picoult Handle Care Quotes

#1. Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.

Brene Brown

#2. I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic Cooper

#3. But the fire, the fire. The desire to live. I am not done yet, I am not.

Veronica Roth

#4. The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

Michele Bachmann

#5. It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So it can breath, she said. I was just breathing. I closed my eyes, anticipating each cut, feeling that wash of relief when it was done.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Jodi Picoult

#7. To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone.

Debasish Mridha

#8. To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.

Ruskin Bond

#9. Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

David Walton

#10. I don't read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite's rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.

Roger Angell

#11. It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
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Richard Paul Evans

#12. I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence of him amongst her friends' feeds. I made a sympathetic face, but my heart leapt up onto her, beat its fists on her heart, yelled, Me Me Me!

Olivia Sudjic

#13. Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

Ernst Haas

#14. Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

Paulo Coelho

#15. I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.

Frederick Lenz

#17. You snorted. And you call a dick a schlong.

Leylah Attar