Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 9

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• If you ask me, music is the language of memory

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  Memories, Language, Music Is

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

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  People, Superhero, Mind

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

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  Fake, Bullets, Bleeding

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• The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

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  May, Who We Are, Damn

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

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  Memories, Eyelids, Perfume

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

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  Daughter, Empathy, Cry

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

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  Children, Mean, Law

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

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  Home, Guy, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

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  Growing Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

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  Home, Long, Wells

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• In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

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  Reality, Path, Hurricanes

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

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  People, Enemy, Grudge

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1051, Simon and Schuster

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• Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

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  Rocks, Feet, Safety

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.453, Simon and Schuster

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• In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

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  Mother, Father, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

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  Looks, Taught, Librarian

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

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  Real, Way, Used

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

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  Looks, Forgotten, Bigs

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

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  Forgiving, Way, Communicate

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.510, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

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  Thinking, Certain, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

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  Tables, Realizing, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.869, Simon and Schuster

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• It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

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  World, Easy, Halt

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

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  Silence, Heavy, Beads

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

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  Closets, Okay

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

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  Mother, People, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

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  Love You, People, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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