Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 29

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• Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

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  Struggle, Kids, Math

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

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  Falling In Love, Years, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

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  Parenting, Should Have, Names

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

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  Mother, Baby, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

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  Eye, Dark, Blue

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

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  Blood, Smell, Burning

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• When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

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  Eye, Color, Weather

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

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  Matter, Consumed

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.700, Simon and Schuster

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• Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

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  Girl, Sweet, Hurt

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• I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

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  Relationship, Distance, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

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  Believe, Gun, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?

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  Fate, Thinking, People

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• for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

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  House, Doe, Dollars

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• Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.

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  Moving, Fall, Love Is

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• Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

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  Long, Remember, Stills

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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• If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

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  Reason, Instinct, Wanted

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• If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.

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  Wall, Men, Imagination

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

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  Stars, People, Shining

  Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

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  White, Black, Shade

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.313, Penguin

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• He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

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  Stars, People, Forever

  Jodi Picoult (2004). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your choice.

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  Pain, Wall, Hands

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• The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

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  Glasses, Half, Milk

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• I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.

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  Dad, Father, Hug

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• This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

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  Heartbreak, Letting Go, Pain

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• Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

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  Dream, Giving Up, Hate

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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