Jodi Picoult Quotes About Babies

Quotes about: Babies

• I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Children, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

• I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Children, Night

  "My Sister’s Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, 2005.

• You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Pain, Winning

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

• What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Stars, Father

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

• You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

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  Baby, Children, Sleep

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

• That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

• When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.

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  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

• The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

• Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Pain, Eye

• There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

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  Mother, Baby, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

• newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Tiny

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.881, Simon and Schuster

• I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

• I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Missing, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

• There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Falling In Love, Eye

• I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

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  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

• When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Littles, Mystery

• When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Eye, Wish

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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