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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 16

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That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

Dream, Way, Happens

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

Letting Go, Mother, Children

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

Heart, Voice, Promise

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

Wells, Happens, Asks

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Mother, Children, Want

there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

Losing Friends, Triumph, Next

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

People, Giving, Fiction

Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

Caring, Cookies, Sugar

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

World, Pretending, Saddest

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

Common Purpose, Wonder, Used

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Mean, Luck, Forget

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

Leaving, Watches, Done

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.804, Simon and Schuster

You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.

Thinking, Names, Giving

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

Fall, Empty Places, Teeth

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Awards, Lawyer, Notorious

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

Moving, Heart, Feet

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

Children, When You Love Someone, Energy

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Forgotten, Complacent, Communicate

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Small Acts, Growth, Cost

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

Summer, Ocean, Winter

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.

Land, Evil, Healthy

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.788, Simon and Schuster

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

Hurt, Relief, Alive

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Hurt, Pain, Long

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until the sun came out again.

Strong, Rain, Eye

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?

Hurt, Divorce, Years

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.797, Simon and Schuster

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