Jodi Picoult Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Believe, Drug

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

• I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Believe, Odds

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

• The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drug, Feelings, Brain

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

• But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

  Jodi Picoult

  Years, Drug, What If

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

• I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dog, Mean, Hair

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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