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Firsts Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too…
- The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were…
- My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
- I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with…
- If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social…
- And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look…
- You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a…
- My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you…
- You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support…
- Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago…
- for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to…
- It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back…
- I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.
- There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
- The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
- I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its…
- There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you…
- As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own…
- Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it…
- But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front…
More Firsts Quotes
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour