“It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice.”
More from Jodi Picoult on Life
“She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.”
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”
“There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.”
“You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.”
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
“My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.”
“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”