Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 42

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• I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

  Jodi Picoult

  Way, Firsts, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Fool, Impossible

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

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  Believe, Want Something, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Holding On, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Heart, Persons

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin

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• There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

  Jodi Picoult

  Giving, Sides, Loser

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, People, My Sisters Keeper

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

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• When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Bells, Truck

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mirrors, Looks, Pieces

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

  Jodi Picoult

  First Love, Love Is, Care

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

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• If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pay, Ifs

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• I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

  Jodi Picoult

  Together, Cracks, Vases

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Voice, Sick

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

  Jodi Picoult

  Names, Judging, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

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  Dark, Light, I Can

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1091, Simon and Schuster

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• If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

  Jodi Picoult

  Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Children, Home

  "Mercy". Book by Jodi Picoult, 1996.

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• There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

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  Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.201, Penguin

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• There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

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  Weapons, Protect, Protect Yourself

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Hate, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

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  Giving, Handicaps, Extras

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

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  Pay, Dogma, Landlord

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Hunters, Ghost

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• In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

  Jodi Picoult

  Tattoo, Art, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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