quote 28.

People are only mean when they’re threatened.

And when you get threatened,

you start looking out only for yourself.

[ Tuesdays With Morrie ; Mitch Albom ]

quote 27.

 

You can’t exist in this world

without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

There are concrete paths,

like credit card receipts

and appointment calendars

and promises you made to others.

[ Vanishing Acts ; Jodi Picoult ]

quote 26.

 

We make messes of our lives,

but every now and then,

we manage to do something that’s exactly right.

The challenge is figuring out which is which.

[ Vanishing Acts ; Jodi Picoult ]

quote 25.

 

Just because you didn’t speak the facts out loud

didn’t erase their existence.

Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

[ The Tenth Circle ; Jodi Picoult ]

quote 24.

 

If you are ever going to have other people trust you,

you must feel that you can trust them too.

Even when you’re in the dark,

even when you’re falling.

[ Tuesdays With Morrie ; Mitch Albom ]

quote 23.

 

Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do,

but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.

[ My Sister's Keeper ; Jodi Picoult ]

quote 22.

 

You can invent any fiction and call it a life;

I thought that if I did it often enough,

I might just start to believe it.

Sometimes, when you don’t ask questions,

it’s not because you are afraid that

someone will lie to your face.

It’s because you’re afraid

they’ll tell you the truth.

[ Vanishing Acts ; Jodi Picoult ]

quote 21.

 

It takes two people to make a lie work:

the person who tells it,

and the one who believes it.

[ Vanishing Acts ; Jodi Picoult ]

quote 20.

 

There is a fine line between

seeing something that’s lost as missing,

And seeing it as something

that might be found.

[ Vanishing Acts ; Jodi Picoult ]

quote 19.

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

[ The Road Not Taken ; Robert Frost ]