Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 13

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• Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

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  Sometimes, Settling, Best Things

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• You get through it, you just never get over it

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  Over It, Get Over

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone deserves a happy ending.

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  Happy Endings, Deserve

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

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  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.

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  Mean, Gone Away, Causes

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• People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

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  Believe, Eye, People

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.726, Simon and Schuster

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• When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.

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  When You Love Someone, Love Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

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  Coward, Too Much

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• How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

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  Book, Reading, Stories

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• Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

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  Thinking

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

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  Love You, Reality, People

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• We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

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  Believe, Needs, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

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  Lying, Color, Coats

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• 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?

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  Hurt, Pain, Love Is

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

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• But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

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  Mean, Monsters, Definitions

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

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  Art, Circles, Imagination

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

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  Girl, Memories, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

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  Running, Community, Mind

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

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  War, Holocaust, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

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  Grandmother, Missing, Scar

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.

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  Home, Knowing, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

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  Moving, Fighting, Emotion

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

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  Sacrifice, Winning, Order

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

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  Dying, Persons

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

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  Hurt, Children, Love You

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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