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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 18

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What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

Thinking, Differences, Trying

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

Hate, Two, Long

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

Differences, People, Like You

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

Memories, Doors, Behinds

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Remember, Forget, Seems

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

Happens, Picks

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.1099, Simon and Schuster

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

Advantage, Cloaks, Happenstance

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Truth, Lying, Dishonesty

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

Giving, Way, World

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.1263, Simon and Schuster

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

Moving, Casting, Amish

"Plain Truth". Book by Jodi Picoult, 2007.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

My Sisters Keeper, Knows, Sisters Keeper

FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Jul 31, 2015

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

Mistake, Want, Same Mistakes

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

Want, Firsts, Found

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

Drug, Feelings, Brain

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

Mother, Dream, Real

Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

Jobs, Waiting, World

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

Dream, Sometimes, Fathom

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

Memories, Heart, Two

Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

Voice, Giving, Forget

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Littles, Different, Stories

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Looks, Want, Look At Me

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Children, Parent, Finding Yourself

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

Knowing, Decision, Leaving

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

Crazy, Lying, Fall

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Hate, Might, Knows

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