Jodi Picoult Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Nice, Believe

• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

• The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Past, Coal

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

• Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Past, Ego

  Sing You Home: research for the book, CD lyrics, gay rights info and resources, www.jodipicoult.com.

• and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Suicide, Pain

• 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

• I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Pain, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

• And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Differences, One Day

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

• There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Feelings, Watches

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

• This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heartbreak, Letting Go, Pain

• Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Maps, Treasure

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

• No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your choice.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Wall, Hands

• Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Pain, Speaks Out

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Pain, Air

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Eye, Years

• [I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

• Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Hands, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

• Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Pain, Love Is

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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