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Stories Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years…
- I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
- in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed.…
- If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new,…
- There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
- It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when…
- Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If…
- 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…
- 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
- How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
- Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by…
- You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
- Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
- Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because…
- Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't…
- The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
- If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays…
- All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste…
- Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.
- When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe…
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