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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 15

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A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

Friendship, Sorry, Real

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

Strong, Enough, My Sisters Keeper

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.

Jobs, Children, Heart

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

Unattainable

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

Character, Irritation, People

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

Love You, Heart, Sleep

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

Children, Grief, Heart

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

Moving, Kids, Parenting

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

Heart, Thinking, Two

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

Heart, Body, Broke

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

Broken, Waiting, Wheels

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

Memories, Years, Two

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

Reality, Miracle, Needs

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Mistake, Eye, Men

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

Running, Animal, Rocks

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.

Falling In Love, Children, Grief

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

Information, Know How, Knows

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

Running, Pain, Air

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

Love Is, Sight, Looks

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

Law, Play, Stronger

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

Memories, Eye, Artist

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

Sweet, Eye, Drawing

Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Thinking, Opposites, People

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

Phoenix, Mind, Ashes

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1091, Simon and Schuster

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Strong, Thinking, Optical Illusions

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