{"quotes":[{"text":"Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["heartache","jodi-picoult","loss","love","value","worth"],"id":6078,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["alex","fiction","jodi-picoult"],"id":22002,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"...Courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["bravery","courage","jodi-picoult","life","love"],"id":37249,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["jodi-picoult","last-day-on-earth","relatable","truth"],"id":72549,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["jodi-picoult","love","romance"],"id":80929,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["jodi-picoult","love","romance","young-adult"],"id":89476,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["age","fear","jodi-picoult","lone-wolf","wisdom"],"id":98234,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["ethical","jodi-picoult","life","moral","perfect-match","ran"],"id":104502,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["inspirational","jodi-picoult","life","lone-wolf","wolves"],"id":115372,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["cry","jodi-picoult","lone-wolf","sadness"],"id":161608,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}