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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 14

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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Parenting, Parent

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Children, Parenting, Talking

No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

Miracle, Wish, Matter

FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 23, 2015

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

Loss, Dark, Light

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

Sports, Hands, Circles

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

Want, Said, Dies

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

Break Up, Breakup, Taken

With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.

Letting Go, Running, Leaving

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Love You, Names, When You Love Someone

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

Smart, Risk, Different

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected.

Regret, Names, Rose

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Loving Life, People, Choices

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.

Imagine, Mask, Smooth

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

Lying, Faces, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

Risk, Different, Looks

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

Who I Am, Surprise, Surprise Me

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

Voice, Missing, Lines

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

Way, Ifs

Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

Tangible, Matter, Elise

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

Boss, Stories, Happy Endings

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

Hurt, What If, Perfect Match

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Garbage Cans, Details, Goes On

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Life, Grief, Envy

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald

Stars, Dark, Night

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

Believe, Saving, Want

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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