Jodi Picoult Mercy Quotes

#1. One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. When Javert finally realized that Valjean had something he himself didn't - mercy - did he shrug and find a new obsession, like knitting or Game of Thrones? No. Because without Valjean to hate, he didn't know who he was anymore.

Jodi Picoult

#3. The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.

Kathy Griffin

#4. One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

Nick Clegg

#5. You can work with someone who's an amazing actor, and if they hate the role they're doing, it's uncomfortable to watch and uncomfortable to work with. When you're working with someone who loves what they're doing, it's just such a joy.

Sienna Guillory

#6. I know you love me. The question is, how much?

Jodi Picoult

#7. I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.

Stephanie Beatriz

#8. Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.

Roger Ebert

#9. Fat people are funny ... until obesity pays your loved one a visit.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. Stars do not tire of shining because we ignore them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Invites us to jump off the hamster wheel of consumption and experience the pinch of abstaining from thoughtless indulgence.

Anonymous

#12. I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

Jack Reynor

#13. Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Jodi Picoult

#14. If you chose to stop a loved one's suffering - either before it began or during the process - was that murder, or mercy?

Jodi Picoult

#15. 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

#16. [ ... ] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

Jodi Picoult

#17. Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.

David A. Bednar

#18. Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

Garth Nix

#19. She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust.

Jodi Picoult