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“The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her?”
― jodi picoult samantha van leer, Between the Lines

“He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Love's a tidal wave," she says.
"Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask.
"No. Because it sucks you under and you drown."
"But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“I'm weird.
Everyone says so.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Leave it to a man to mess things up”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong with the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”
― Samantha van Leer, Between the Lines

“Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“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

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”
― Jodi Picoult

“It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who he was when she accepted him, and the frog turned out to be a prince. But the princess had been unwilling to kiss the frog, the prince remained warty and unloved, and now there was no adventure to be had.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Ring and the Crown

“What happened to your face?" she asked.

"It fell on a fist." He shrugged.

"That happens a lot?"

"Enough.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Ring and the Crown

“Sometimes the only way to win is to cheat," Aelwyn said stubbornly.

The sisters turned to see what the Sister Superior would do, but Sister Mallory only sighed. "You are young still, Sister Myrddyn, but one day you will learn that a false victory is a hollow one.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Ring and the Crown

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender ”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game