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Second Glance
Jodi Picoult
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”
“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”
“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”
“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”
“When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.”
“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”
“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”
“I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time. ”
“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”
“And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”
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trust, love, healing, second-glance, community, faith, heroism, women