Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 3

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• words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Mean, Joy

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

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  Beautiful, Interesting

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• The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

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  Focus, Lone Wolf, Lost

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

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  Morning, Thinking, Ideas

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you're right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you've never known. I learn this over and over again.

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  Heart, Thinking, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

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  Love, Life, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

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  Silence, Sound, Sitting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

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  Pain, Past, Ego

  Sing You Home: research for the book, CD lyrics, gay rights info and resources, www.jodipicoult.com.

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• I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

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  Grief, Thinking, Ugly

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.182, Ballantine Books

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• Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

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  Wall, Paper, Mouths

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

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  Life, Rich, Wanted

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, Drug

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

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• If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

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  Life, Change, Ends

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Every life has a soundtrack.

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  Soundtracks

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

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  Needed

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• Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

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  Daughter, Hands, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

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  Weed, Hate, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

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  Fear, Answers, Noticing

  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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• How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

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  Death, Heart, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.215, Penguin

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• you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Novelists, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

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  Differences, People, Forever

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

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  Truth, Lying, Believe

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• I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

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  Growing Up, People, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.116, Ballantine Books

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• Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

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  Hurt, Growing Up, Lying

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perseverance, Motivation, Writing

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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