Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 14

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• When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

  Jodi Picoult

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

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  Hurt, Riding Your Bike, Tumbling Down

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

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  Ocean, Silence, Arms

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• So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

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  Eye, I Love Him, Sight

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• You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

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  Baby, Children, Sleep

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

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  Sometimes, Wonder, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

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  Eye, Light, Oxygen

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• It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

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  Disappointing, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

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  Running, Work Out, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• It's choice that makes us human.

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  Choices, Humans

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

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  Believe, Stills, Hard

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• I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

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  What Matters, Matter, Opinion

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Nineteen Minutes: A novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

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  Believe, Fate, Blame

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

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  Parenting, Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

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  Children, Parenting, Talking

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• No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

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  Miracle, Wish, Matter

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 23, 2015

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• You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

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  Loss, Dark, Light

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

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  Sports, Hands, Circles

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• I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

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  Want, Said, Dies

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

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  Break Up, Breakup, Taken

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• With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.

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  Letting Go, Running, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

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• You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

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  Love You, Names, When You Love Someone

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• a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

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  Smart, Risk, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected.

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  Regret, Names, Rose

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

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  Loving Life, People, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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