Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 43

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• I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

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  Hurt, Watches, Alex

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.224, Penguin

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• It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

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  Hurt, Cutting, Ribs

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.315, Penguin

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• There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

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  Past, Starting Over, Use

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.378, Penguin

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• I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

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  Views, Lovely, Able

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

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  Talking, Sitting, I Smile

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• [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

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  Weekend, Talking, Lunch

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• People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

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  Real, Wind, People

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

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  Loss, Missing, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

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  Thinking, Decision, Realizing

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

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  Cheese, Like You, Boxes

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1131, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

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  Brain, Wow, Problem

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

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  Blood, Space, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

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  Character, Talking, Tip Of The Iceberg

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

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  Dying, Stories, Reason

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Who spit in your porridge?

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  Spit, Porridge

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?

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  Book, Thinking, Want

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

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  Night, World, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

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  War, Space, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

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  Father, Grandmother, Order

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

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  Hate, Trying, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

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  Children, Grief, Moving

  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.6, Simon and Schuster

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• My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

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  Brother, Men, Dragons

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

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  Revenge, Different, Hunger

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

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  Kindness, Doe, Pay

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

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  War, Nursing, Games

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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