"Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least."

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Source : Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.437, Simon and Schuster

Jodi Picoult

#Want Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #What You Want Quotes

“I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.”
“I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.”
“Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.”
“Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.”

Source : "Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism". Book by Juan Donoso Cortes, 1879.
“WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?”
“By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.”
“Pulque - lightning nectar for the Gods.”
“One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.”

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