Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 11

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• If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

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  Book, Character, Reality

  "Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". Morning Edition, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

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• If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

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  Laughing, Want, Plans

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Two, House, Bed

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

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• There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

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  Dream, Sleep, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

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  Memories, World, Want

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

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• 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

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  Pain, Differences, One Day

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

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• If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

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  Love You, Men, Balance

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

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

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• How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

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  War, Survivor, Remember

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Baby, Pain, Eye

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• I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

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  Suffering, Want, Sin

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

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• Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

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  Knowing, Identification, Knowing Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

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  Party, Sacrifice, Third Parties

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

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  Sweet, Butterfly, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

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  Simple, Expectations, Comfort

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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

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  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

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• Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

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  Believe, Silly, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

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  Hurt, Heart, Dark

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

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  Daughter, Mother, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.678, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

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  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

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  Sky, Glimpse, Moments

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.681, Simon and Schuster

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• Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

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  Awards, Lawyer, Notorious

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

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  Moving, Heart, Feet

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

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  Children, When You Love Someone, Energy

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

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• So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

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  Forgotten, Complacent, Communicate

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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