Jodi Picoult Quotes

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me. Would it make you feel better To watch me, while I bleed? All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.

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

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

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

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

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."

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

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.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

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.