Jodi Livon Quotes

We don't have to meet people where they are, we just have to love them where they are to find any sort of peace. This is something I learned from being my mother's child. ~ Jodi Livon

Act as if everyone loves you.
Be in love with everyone.
Hug people with your words. ~ Jodi Livon

Just breathe and believe. ~ Jodi Livon

Being kind takes more heart than effort. ~ Jodi Livon

Self-acceptance is self-love in action. ~ Jodi Livon

You had something special planned by and for your own soul when you arrived on this earth as the name you wear today. Trust in the Universe. Be open, welcoming, and receptive. Have confidence in yourself. Know that you have the experience to deal with whatever comes your way. Remember, this is your life and you are here to shine. ~ Jodi Livon

The goal of the soul is to work toward enlightenment. ~ Jodi Livon

Be yourself! Fill yourself up with light and fly! ~ Jodi Livon

The mourning process can feel like going through a carwash without a car. ~ Jodi Livon

I thought he was someone I wanted to know. As it turns out, it was a case of
mistaken identity. ~ Jodi Livon

When we are able to see the choices we make through the eyes of self-acceptance, we are transformed. ~ Jodi Livon

When you act on an intuitive impulse, you are celebrating one of the thoroughly joyful aspects of life on this planet. That calm, guiding inner voice is a natural part of you and deserves to be honored. What is not natural is ignoring it. ~ Jodi Livon

May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are. ~ Jodi Livon

I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light. ~ Jodi Livon

Life isn't always a bed of roses. However, having once seen, smelled, and touched roses, I am forever changed for the better. So my down moments are just that, moments. ~ Jodi Livon

If the other shoe drops, run barefoot! ~ Jodi Livon

When you trust your gut, follow your heart, and use your head, magic happens! ~ Jodi Livon

The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color! ~ Jodi Livon

Follow your heart, trust your gut, and use your head. ~ Jodi Livon

I have within me all that I need; I am love and life in action. ~ Jodi Livon

Your soul is involved in your business. Your business exists for your soul. ~ Jodi Livon

We are the authors of the stories our soul unfolds. ~ Jodi Livon

I shine my light on every dark thought that arises and they turn into whispers with wings and fly away. ~ Jodi Livon

When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings. ~ Jodi Livon

And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? ~ Jodi Picoult

In nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.
In nineteen minutes you can get revenge. ~ Jodi Picoult

The acne-pitted kid manning the controls flips the switch, and the carousel begins to wheeze to a stop. Sophie leans forward, caressing the plaster mane. Fitz and Delia appear again, standing up in the stirrups for a last stretch at the brass ring. They're batting at each other's hands and laughing. There's an S-curved steel bar at the top of the carousel that makes one of their horses rise as the other falls. It looks like they're moving separately, but they're not. ~ Jodi Picoult

I know you love me. The question is, how much? ~ Jodi Picoult

Deciding not to let worry and regret get under your skin can be the most freeing decision yet! ~ Jodi Aman

If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway. Ignorance, see? ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her. ~ Jodi Picoult

You're like a book I can't put down. I need to know more. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

A trial, it often came down to who had the best story. ~ Jodi Picoult

I wouldn't know what being in love felt like if it hit me in the face ~ Jodi Picoult

Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me.

I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic.

The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. and I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it.

It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't.

I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

You know how I see it? 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 ... I guess from my point of view, we can choose to be in the dark, or we can light a candle. And for me, Christ is that candle. ~ Jodi Picoult

I ever retire, I'm going to buy a house in the centre of town somewhere and name it Sea View, just to give people something to worry about. ~ Jodi Taylor

Hole. "This is where we found the body." "Who was trampled," Jenna says pointedly. ~ Jodi Picoult

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future. ~ Jodi Picoult

Leave out what you expected and tell me what you got. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

Can you see the pond?"
From up here, I can. It is a piece of sky, lying on the ground.
When Heaven breaks, who fixes it? ~ Jodi Picoult

It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down. ~ Jodi Picoult

It's choice that makes us human. ~ Jodi Picoult

Before I had a chance to feel too sorry for myself, I turned toward the front of the cabin and found the bookcases carved right into the wall. Hundreds of leather-bound volumes rested in dim alcoves. I had no idea what stories or information they held. It didn't matter. I wanted to absorb anything they had to say. ~ Jodi Meadows

No life is perfect. There's always something that hurts, but it's important to appreciate the good things, too." He kissed my cheek, breathing warmth over me. "If it wasn't the end of the wolrd, it'd be something else. Maybe not this big or terrible, but there are always events in life that can make you unhappy if you let them. ~ Jodi Meadows

Would you rather spend the rest of your life thinking about us, and remembering it as something totally perfect, or would it be better to let it get all screwed up and have that as your memory? ~ Jodi Picoult

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins. ~ Jodi Picoult

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true. ~ Jodi Picoult

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward. ~ Jodi Picoult

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw. ~ Jodi Picoult

I don't know what I've done to deserve you. ~ Jodi Ellen Malpas

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally
break them apart? ~ Jodi Picoult

What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible? ~ Jodi Picoult

Can a person hold tightly to two thoughts that look, at first sight, as if they'd cancel each other out? ~ Jodi Picoult

They say I killed my husband. I say he ran into my knife. ~ Jodi Picoult

Rage often brings out the real person ~ Jodi Picoult

What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack. ~ Jodi Picoult

it's crazy, isn't it, the way we always say that children belong to their parents, when it's really the other way around? ~ Jodi Picoult

standing in the doorway of the kitchen. ~ Jodi Picoult

Every couple of days I have to remind myself that I'm really okay. And it's not the pretend kind of okay. It's the kind that you feel from the inside out. It's the kind of okay that has me thinking about outfits and coffee first thing in the morning, and homework that's due later this week, and that I need to call Jodi back, and what Cole's abs look like when he flexes. It's the kind of okay that makes life a zillion times more bearable and also has me waiting for the other shoe to drop. I ~ Autumn Doughton

I bit Tiger Lily, as hard as I could. I don't know how I thought it would help. Fairie bites are worse than wasp stings - they pierce and burn and ache all at the same time. As best, I knew, I'd be swatted away, and at worst she might crush me by accident in her reaction to the pain. But what happened was worse. She didn't seem to notice it at all. It was like Tiger Lily herself wasn't even really there. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

You are going to get everything good that's coming to you - not because you beg for it, and not because of what color you are. Because you deserve ~ Jodi Picoult

What if, when I get home, Nicholas is standing on the porch with open arms, willing to pick up where we left off? Can I let myself make the same mistakes all over again? ~ Jodi Picoult

Every holocaust starts with an ember. You just have to know what to look for. ~ Jodi Picoult

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been? ~ Jodi Picoult

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.
I need you, she replied.
Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip. ~ Jodi Picoult

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan. ~ Jodi Picoult