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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 17

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People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

People, Changed, Wells

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.807, Simon and Schuster

I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)

Country, Mean, People

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.941, Simon and Schuster

I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.

Stupid, Mean, Reality

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Broken Heart, Broken Love, Lines

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

Lying, Doe, Looks

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Might, Break, Limbs

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

Devil, Knows

There are certain things I do not talk about.

Certain

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.11, Harper Collins

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

Hurt, Pain, Speaks Out

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

People, Giving, Burden

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

Different, Energy, Doe

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

But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.

Moving, Heart, Feet

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

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Mistake, Starting Over, Months

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

Missing, Gourmet, Alternatives

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

Best Relationship, Way, Sides

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Grief, Loss, Past

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

Doctors, Nurse, Judging

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Enough, Live And Let Live

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

Way, Left

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

Grief, Two

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

Moving, Loss, Space

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Lying, Sometimes, Found

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

Stupid, Buying, Belief

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Life, Challenges, Now And Then

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

Feet, World, Firm

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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