Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 28

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• Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

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  God, Suicide, Tree

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

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  Moving, Behind You, Claims

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

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• A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

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  Boys, Eyebrows, Heroin

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

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• My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

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  Mother, Moving, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)

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  Couple, Night, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

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  Jobs, Hands, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

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  People, Want, Truth Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.

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  Feel Better, People, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

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  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Mean

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

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  Causes, Action, Embarrassment

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

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  Clueless, Adoption, Term

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.

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  Pain, Eye, Years

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• Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

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  Rip, Believe, Motherhood

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

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  Rip, Rain, Fall

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

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• There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

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  Mother, Baby, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

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  Memories, Different, Might

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• I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

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  Way, Sometimes, Eavesdropping

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

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  Choices, Balance, Too Late

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

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  Perfection, Definitions, Good Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

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  Powerful, Believe, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

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  Morning, Mistake, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. 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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  Betrayal, Forgiving, Stones

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• I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

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  Zebras, Elephants, White

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

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  Heaven, Age

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

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  Want, My Sisters Keeper, Stable

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

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