Jodi Picoult Quotes

The beauty's in the scars.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.