Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 4

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• But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

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  People, Good Enough, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

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  Heart, Promise, Together

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

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• I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

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  Communication, Facts, Faces

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

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  Believe, Way, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

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  Perceive, Happened

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• Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

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  True Love, Love Is, Air

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• Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

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  Beautiful, Toxic, Beautiful Things

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

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  Jigsaw Puzzles, Hands, Pieces

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• Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

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  Reading, Past, Chloe

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• How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?

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  Enemy, Beats

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

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  Dark, Different, Alive

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

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  Rocks, Ponds, Stones

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

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  Mom, Mother, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

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  Fall, Wish, Raises

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

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  Names, Missing, Able

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

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  Love, Romantic, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

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  Mother, Father, Love You

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

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  Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

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  Hate, Squirrels, Suffering

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• One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

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  Loss, Innocence, Trauma

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

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  Loss, Gone, Paradox

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

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  Distance, Dark, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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• the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

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  Together, Letters, Should

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

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  Dad, Father, Fire

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• In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

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  Sad, Children, Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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