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There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Jodi Picoult

Inspirational, Recovery, Dark

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult

Inspirational, Life, Lonely

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Jodi Picoult

Inspirational, Kindness, People

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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 pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Jodi Picoult

Love, Inspirational, Marriage

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.

Jodi Picoult

Inspirational, Two, People

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Picture Perfect”, p.93, Hachette UK

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Jodi Picoult

Inspirational, Lessons, Taught

FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 14, 2015

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Jodi Picoult

Love, Inspirational, Pain

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Jodi Picoult

Inspirational, Children, Adoption

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Jodi Picoult

Inspirational, First Love, Years