Quotes From "Lone Wolf" By Jodi Picoult

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking...
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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come. Jodi Picoult
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable...
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. Jodi Picoult
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Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things. Jodi Picoult
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls...
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain. Jodi Picoult
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions. Jodi Picoult
The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you...
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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die. Jodi Picoult
I may not have a degree, but I certainly got...
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I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education. Jodi Picoult
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The first time someone I loved left me behind... I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool. Jodi Picoult
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You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky, " Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on. Kathryn Lasky
Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream...
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Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan. Jodi Picoult
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Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember. Jodi Picoult
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Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started. Jodi Picoult
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Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand. Jodi Picoult
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You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to. Jodi Picoult
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Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made. Jodi Picoult
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The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok — the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since I’ve come back from Quebec, I have thought of my address as Bitawkdakinna. I don’t know enough Abenaki to be sure it’s a real word, but translated, it is the world between. I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family. . Jodi Picoult
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The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison. Jodi Picoult
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Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again. Kathryn Lasky
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When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother was gone, and her mom was infatuated with some guy who was missing vowels in his unpronounceable last name. So I did what any other man in that situation would do: I came armed with gifts. I bought her things that I thought a twelve-year-old would love: a poster of Taylor Lautner, a Miley Cyrus CD, nail polish that glowed in the dark. "I can't wait for the next Twilight movie, " I babbled, when I presented her with the gifts in front of Georgie. "My favorite song on the CD is 'If We Were a Movie.' And I almost went with glitter nail polish, but the salesperson said this is much cooler, especially with Halloween coming up." Cara looked at her mother and said, without any judgment, "I think your boyfriend is gay. Jodi Picoult
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The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean something else, no innuendo. Wolves fight for two reasons: family and territory. Humans are driven by ego; wolves have no room for it and will literally nip it out of you. For a wolf, the world is about understanding, knowledge, respect — attributes that many humans have cast off, along with an appreciation of the natural world. Jodi Picoult