"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

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Source : Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

Jodi Picoult

#Differences Quotes #People Quotes #Forever Quotes

“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
“Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.”
“Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.”
“Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.”
“There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.”
“History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.”
“The spirit of Buddhism is, more than anything, about valuing harmony and unity, in which others are respected and embraced rather than denounced. This has been the way of Buddhism since the beginning, and this is true Buddhism.”

Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.137

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