Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 19

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• Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

  Jodi Picoult

  Knowing, Decision, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

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  Crazy, Lying, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

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  Hate, Might, Knows

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• I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

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  Looks, Hiding, Persons

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• We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

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  Heart, Silence, Eric

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

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  Ocean, Son, Asking

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• The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

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  Mother, Children, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

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  Moving, Thinking, Forever

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• And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

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  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

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  Fall, Jumping, Ice Water

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

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  Thinking, Way, Grew Up

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

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  People, What If, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.436, Simon and Schuster

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• There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

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  People, Stains, Your Future

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.

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  Lying, Said, Persons

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.827, Simon and Schuster

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• and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

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  Surprise, Moments, Strings

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

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  Memories, Heart, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Love Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

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  Reality, World, Fantasy

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

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  Wall, Lying, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

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  Believe, Half, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

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  Names, Insane, Nine

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• I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

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  Degrees, May

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

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  Cancer, My Birthday, Kind

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• Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

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  Cliffs, Julia

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

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  Grief, Earth, Healed

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