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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 10

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

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

Reality, Path, Hurricanes

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

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.

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

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.

Rocks, Feet, Safety

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

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

Real, Way, Used

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

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

Looks, Forgotten, Bigs

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

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.

Forgiving, Way, Communicate

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

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?

Thinking, Certain, Knows

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

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

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

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

World, Easy, Halt

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

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

Silence, Heavy, Beads

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

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

Closets, Okay

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

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?

Mother, People, Feelings

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

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.

Love You, People, Lines

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

There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.

Letting Go, Peers, Body

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

Rocks, Two, Once Upon A Time

Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

Differences, Waiting, Next

Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

Imagine, Certainty, Sixth Sense

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

I Realized

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

Forever, Hem, Littles

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.721, Simon and Schuster

Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

Mother, Distance, Fall

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

Needs, Tests, Way

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

Believe, People, These Days

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

Might, Make You Happy, Made

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

Baby, Eye, Wish

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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