It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.
– Jodi Picoult
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- Be wary of the man who does not offer water, charges too much for water, asks for too much water, and the one who makes water his business. – Suzy Kassem
- Sometimes there aren’t words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him. – Jodi Picoult
- When you are in love, an ocean of joy dances like the waves in an ocean. You are that ocean. – Debasish Mridha
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- An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. – Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart. – Debasish Mridha
- Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect. – Jodi Picoult
- When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, hard work is the way to get results. – Richie Norton
- A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a best friend will be sitting next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’! – Kate Angell
- A good friend will bail you out of jail. A true friend will be sitting next to you saying, ‘damn, we ????ed up’. – Rotten eCards
- When life hands you lemons sometimes you just have to say screw the lemons, and bail. – Magan Vernon
- Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That’s life – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Water is water. Water is life sustenance. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. – Euginia Herlihy
- Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss. – Matt Chandler
- Trying to destroy darkness is like trying to crush water. It will always be a part of you, whether you admit it or not. – CM Rayne
- A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order. – Jodi Picoult
- A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you. – Jodi Picoult
- I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn’t be the cost of failure for a good friend. – Jodi Picoult
- If you live in each other’s pockets long enough, you’re related. – Jodi Picoult
- words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. – Jodi Picoult
- I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don’t understand how I’m going to get from here to there. – Jodi Picoult
- You can believe something really hard,’ Faith says, ‘and still be wrong. – Jodi Picoult
- Words, he knew, could scar. – Jodi Picoult
- To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her. – Jodi Picoult
- You figured that the only way I’d be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me. – Jodi Picoult
- Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value. – Jodi Picoult
- I don’t understand why it’s a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer. – Jodi Picoult
- Suffering so someone else didn’t have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else’s well being. – Jodi Picoult
- 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. – Jodi Picoult
- The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin. – Jodi Picoult
- It’s not because I don’t want to hurt Delia’s feelings. It’s because when she is bruised, I’m the one who aches. – Jodi Picoult
- 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 child. – Jodi Picoult
- Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves. – Jodi Picoult
- Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound. – Jodi Picoult
- I realized it was like looking into the sun-”you shouldn’t do it, because you’d turn your face away and be blind to everything else. – Jodi Picoult
- Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved. – Jodi Picoult
- On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger’s. Like me, they’re very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone. – Jodi Picoult