Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 23

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• I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

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  Dream, Fall, World

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

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  Expectations, Might, Honest

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• Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

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  Hate, Done, Stills

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• Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

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  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

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  Dad, Regret, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

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  Jobs, Curves, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

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  Real, Infatuation, Persons

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.619, Simon and Schuster

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• Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

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  Love You, Heart, People

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

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  Pain, Nice, Believe

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• Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

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  Growing Up, People, Parent

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 16, 2015

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• This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

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  Love, Thinking, Air

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• When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

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  Dog, Heart, Eye

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• I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

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  Baby, Children, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

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  Mean, Names

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.685, Simon and Schuster

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• Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

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  Loss, Different, Dialect

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

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  Matter, No Matter What, Get Away

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

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  Running, Fall, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.

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  Hurt, Trying, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

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  Want, Behavior, Worst

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

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  Forgiving, Able, Never Forget

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

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  Confused, Mean, Where You Are

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

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  Mom, Mother, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

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  Empty, Spokes, Okay

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

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  Smart, Cat, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

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  Strength, Honesty, Wall

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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