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Best Tell Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw.…
- when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because…
- Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask…
- I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
- I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.
- 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,…
- I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
- We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes…
- I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
- In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell…
- When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.
- How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant…
- There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your…
- There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
- How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?
- You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j
- 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…
- You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to…
- Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even…
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- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're… — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden