Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 2

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• Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Past, Forgiving, Important

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 07, 2015

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• My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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• The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

  Jodi Picoult

  Prayer, Differences, Wish

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.

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  Relationship, Morning, Real

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• I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Art, Looks, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Loss, Keys

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Parenting, Funny Parent

  "My Sister's Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, April 6, 2004.

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• Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

  Jodi Picoult

  Order, Missing, Homesick

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kissing, Waiting, Forever

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• Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Details, Sometimes, Forget You

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Travel, Doe, Where You Come

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• maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

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  Soul, Promise, Mind

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• They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

  Jodi Picoult

  Views, Way, Looks

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• Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Past, Self

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Kindness, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

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  Wise, Missing, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.

  Jodi Picoult

  Animal, Thoughtful, Intelligent

  "10 Questions for Jodi Picoult". TIME magazine interview, www.jodipicoult.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Religion, Sometimes

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• if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

  Jodi Picoult

  Positive, Thinking, Fine

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

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  Motivational, Dream, Differences

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

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  Clouds, Sky, Interesting

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1052, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, People, Ordinary

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Ordinary Days, Blink

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Dna, Parent

  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.26, Simon and Schuster

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