Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 21

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• When you love someone you let them take care of you.

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  Love, Care, When You Love Someone

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• What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

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  Lost

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

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  Kindness, People, Gaps

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

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  Cutting, Opportunity, Bones

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

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  Pain, Feelings, Watches

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

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  Substance, Outcomes, Determine

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

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  Broken, Ends, Seems

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

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  Mistake, People, Done

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.

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  Strong, Memories, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

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  Sister, Mother, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me the way he does; I just didn't know that I'd have to give birth to him.

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  Morning, Eye, Son

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• There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

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  Hurt, Bird, Get Better

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.170, Penguin

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• The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

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  Believe, Bamboo, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

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  Answers, Window, Parking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

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  When You Love Someone, Crime, Love Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

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  Fire, Helping, Remember

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

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  Growing Up, Teenager, Moving

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• Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

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  Thinking, People, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

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  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it was so that she could see what was on the other side, but really, it was so that she wouldn't have to look at herself. That, and because she thought she might be able to steal a piece of glass when no one was looking, and use it to carve her heart out of her chest.

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  Girl, Heart, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

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  Lying, Differences, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

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  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

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• Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

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  Funny Things, One Day, Looks

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• [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

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  Drama, Silly, Order

  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.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

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  Together, World, Changing The World

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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