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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 12

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But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

Missing, Important, Would Be

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

Thinking, Wind, Shadow

Source: www.wbur.org

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

Memories, Language, Music Is

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

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

People, Superhero, Mind

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

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

Fake, Bullets, Bleeding

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

May, Who We Are, Damn

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

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Book, Character, Reality

"Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". Morning Edition, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

Laughing, Want, Plans

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Two, House, Bed

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

Dream, Sleep, Teeth

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

Memories, World, Want

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

Pain, Differences, One Day

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

Hurt, Riding Your Bike, Tumbling Down

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

Ocean, Silence, Arms

So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

Eye, I Love Him, Sight

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

Baby, Children, Sleep

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

Sometimes, Wonder, My Sisters Keeper

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

Eye, Light, Oxygen

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

Disappointing, Knows

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

Running, Work Out, Way

Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

It's choice that makes us human.

Choices, Humans

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Believe, Stills, Hard

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

What Matters, Matter, Opinion

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Nineteen Minutes: A novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

Believe, Fate, Blame

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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