Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 12

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• The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

  Jodi Picoult

  Small Acts, Growth, Cost

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

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  Summer, Ocean, Winter

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.

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  Land, Evil, Healthy

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.788, Simon and Schuster

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• I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

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  Hurt, Relief, Alive

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

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  Hurt, Pain, Long

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

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• Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until the sun came out again.

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  Strong, Rain, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

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  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

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  I Realized

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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• She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

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  Forever, Hem, Littles

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.721, Simon and Schuster

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• Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

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  Mother, Distance, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

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  Needs, Tests, Way

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• These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

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  Believe, People, These Days

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

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  Might, Make You Happy, Made

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

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• When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

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  Baby, Eye, Wish

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

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  Husband, Men, Llamas

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

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  Reading, Squares, Guy

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.

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  Baby, Missing, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

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  Lying, Breathing, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.208, Penguin

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• You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

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  Real, Glasses, Water

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

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  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• "Stupid English."
  "English isn't stupid," I say.
  "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me."
  "Why not?"
  "He says lunch isn't a subject."
  I glance at him. "It isn't."
  "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"

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  Teacher, Stupid, Writing

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

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• She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

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  Passion, Excess, Way

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• There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

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  Hurt, Lying, Two

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• Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

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  Animal, Turns, Humans

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

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  Night, People, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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