Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 25

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• Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

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  Believe, Gay, Choices

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• Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

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  Baseball, Stars, Kids

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

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  Believe, Heart, Sunset

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• Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

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  Games, Long, Ears

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• There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

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  Time, Grief, School

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• You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

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  Loud, Said, Happened

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.868, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

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  Powerful, Believe, Odds

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

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  School, Thinking, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

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  Describing, Knows, Ifs

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• I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

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  Block, Believe, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult on Writing, Publishing, and What She’s Reading". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. April 3, 2012.

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• You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

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  Relationship, Sweet, Important

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

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  Depression, Past, Reason

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• [I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

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  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

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  Wonderful, Awareness, Remarkable

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

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  Matter, Way, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

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  Ignorance, Walking Through Life, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.579, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

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  Would Be, My Sisters Keeper, Easier

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

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  Sleep, Night, Love Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Someone You Love

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

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  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Gone

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.632, Simon and Schuster

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• The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

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  Legal System, Way, Hell

  Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

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• Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

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  Children, People, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

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• I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

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  Running, Book, Ideas

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Have a conversation with your family about your end-of-life wishes while you are healthy. No one wants to have that discussion... but if you do, you'll be giving your loved ones a tremendous gift, since they won't have to guess what your wishes would have been, and it takes the onus of responsibility off of them.

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  Responsibility, Giving, Healthy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Write a living will. And become an organ donor!

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  Writing, Donors, Organ Donor

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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