Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 39

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• Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Way, Lost

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

  Jodi Picoult

  Expectations, Way, Beats

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

  Jodi Picoult

  Butterfly, Hands, Dying

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.235, Penguin

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• She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

  Jodi Picoult

  Facts, Might, Lifetime

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

  Jodi Picoult

  Faces, Sun, Blind

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.156, Penguin

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• On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Wind, Alive

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blue, Years, Sky

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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• Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fighting, Numbers, Shapes

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

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• An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perfectly Normal, Looks, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cat, Wind, Needs

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Opposites, Expectations

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1018, Simon and Schuster

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• Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

  Jodi Picoult

  Ready, Happens, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doors, Decision, Waiting

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Long, Pits

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1311, Simon and Schuster

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• ...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feels Just, Space, Substance

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Half, I've Learned

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baseball, Eye, Skulls

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, People, Needs

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Function, Torn

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.

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  Baby, Falling In Love, Eye

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• You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Mean, Mind

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• In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

  Jodi Picoult

  My Sister, Ends

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Would Be, Imagine

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• Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Blood, Ears

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