Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 20

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• Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Lessons, Taught

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 14, 2015

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• Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Once Upon A Time, Between The Lines

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

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  Heaven, Break

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Doors, Faces

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Pain, Winning

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

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  Heaven, Want, Life Is

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Toffee, Never Quit

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Distance, Uncomfortable

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• When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

  Jodi Picoult

  Needs, Awake

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hockey, Hair, Color

  "Nineteen Minutes". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 6, 2007.

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• To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Looks, Like Something

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• A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

  Jodi Picoult

  Men, Way, Moral

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

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  Darkness, Determined, Window

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.658, Simon and Schuster

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• Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

  Jodi Picoult

  Trust, Faith, Jumping

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

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  What If, Vanishing, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

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  Beautiful, Lost Love, Rainbow

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feel Better, Who I Am, Want

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• If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

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  Long, Pockets, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?

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  Insomniac, Highways

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

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  Years, Apples, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

  Jodi Picoult

  Faces, Torn

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.374, Penguin

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• I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

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  Reality, Monsters, Difficult

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Vision, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Missing, Might, Loses

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• She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

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  Heart, Animal, Leaving

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