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And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.Jodi Picoult
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Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?Jodi Picoult
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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.Jodi Picoult
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I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399) .Jodi Picoult
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Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?Jodi Picoult
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You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.Jodi Picoult
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Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.Jodi Picoult
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It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.Jodi Picoult
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We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.Jodi Picoult
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In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it’s the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.Jodi Picoult
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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.Jodi Picoult
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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.Jodi Picoult
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Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing youJodi Picoult
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Lighten up.” I yawned, pointing across the street to the diner. “If I got upset every time someone beat me, or chased me, or tried to rape me, I’d be crying in my cereal every morning. No one likes a whiner.Mary Calmes
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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.Jodi Picoult
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You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.Jodi Picoult
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You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.Jodi Picoult