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You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
– Jodi Picoult

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  2. She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong. – Jodi Picoult
  3. What you didn’t tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did. – Jodi Picoult
  4. 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, even to me. – Jodi Picoult
  5. A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it’s ready. – Jodi Picoult
  6. If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you’ve made. – Jodi Picoult
  7. When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you. – Jodi Picoult
  8. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. – Jodi Picoult
  9. When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. – Jodi Picoult
  10. …they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us. – Ayn Rand
  11. Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That’s what fiction is: a game of pretend. – Marty Rubin
  12. Don’t worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real. – Jill Shalvis
  13. To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. – Jacques Derrida
  14. Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  15. Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don’t but its harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do.. – Anonymous
  16. Tell me what you want, and I’ll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I’ll tell you who you really are. – Brunonia Barry
  17. Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it. – Catherynne M Valente
  18. A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order. – Jodi Picoult
  19. A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you. – Jodi Picoult
  20. I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn’t be the cost of failure for a good friend. – Jodi Picoult
  21. If you live in each other’s pockets long enough, you’re related. – Jodi Picoult
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. You can believe something really hard,’ Faith says, ‘and still be wrong. – Jodi Picoult
  25. Words, he knew, could scar. – Jodi Picoult
  26. To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her. – Jodi Picoult
  27. 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
  28. Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value. – Jodi Picoult
  29. I don’t understand why it’s a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer. – Jodi Picoult
  30. Suffering so someone else didn’t have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else’s well being. – Jodi Picoult
  31. 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
  32. The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin. – Jodi Picoult
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound. – Jodi Picoult
  37. 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
  38. It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon. – Jodi Picoult
  39. Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved. – Jodi Picoult
  40. 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

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