Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 15

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• I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.

  Jodi Picoult

  Imagine, Mask, Smooth

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

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  Lying, Faces, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

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  Risk, Different, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

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  Who I Am, Surprise, Surprise Me

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

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  Voice, Missing, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

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  Way, Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

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  Tangible, Matter, Elise

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

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  Boss, Stories, Happy Endings

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

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  Hurt, What If, Perfect Match

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

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  Garbage Cans, Details, Goes On

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• Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

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  Life, Grief, Envy

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

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  Believe, Saving, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

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  Friendship, Sorry, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

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  Strong, Enough, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.

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  Jobs, Children, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

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  Unattainable

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

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  Character, Irritation, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

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• I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

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  Love You, Heart, Sleep

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

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  Children, Grief, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

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  Moving, Kids, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

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  Heart, Thinking, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

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  Heart, Body, Broke

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

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  Broken, Waiting, Wheels

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

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  Memories, Years, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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