Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 16

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• Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

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  Reality, Miracle, Needs

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

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  Mistake, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

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  Running, Animal, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.

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  Falling In Love, Children, Grief

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• anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

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  Information, Know How, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

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  Running, Pain, Air

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

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  Love Is, Sight, Looks

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• But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

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  Law, Play, Stronger

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

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  Memories, Eye, Artist

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

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  Sweet, Eye, Drawing

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

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  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

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  Phoenix, Mind, Ashes

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1091, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

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  Strong, Thinking, Optical Illusions

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• That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

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  Dream, Way, Happens

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• Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

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  Letting Go, Mother, Children

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• Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

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  Heart, Voice, Promise

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

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  Wells, Happens, Asks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

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  Mother, Children, Want

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• there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

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  Losing Friends, Triumph, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

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  People, Giving, Fiction

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• Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

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  Caring, Cookies, Sugar

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

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  World, Pretending, Saddest

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

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  Common Purpose, Wonder, Used

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

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  Mean, Luck, Forget

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

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  Leaving, Watches, Done

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.804, Simon and Schuster

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