Jodi Picoult Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

  Jodi Picoult

  Time, Grief, School

• Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, School

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

• What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Moving, School

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

• You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  School, Thinking, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

• She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kids, School, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

• What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

  Jodi Picoult

  Home, School, Waste

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin