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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."

"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."

"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."

"In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead."
Explore more quotes by Jodi Picoult

"We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?"

"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."

"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."

"Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you."

"What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?"

"On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone."
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