Jodi Picoult Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Grief

  Jodi Picoult (2004). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.591, Simon and Schuster

• The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

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  Reading, Home, House

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Two, House, Bed

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

• for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  House, Doe, Dollars

• Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, House, Bleeding

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.648, Simon and Schuster

• Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

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  Angel, House, Atoms

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

• That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Jobs, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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