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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 2

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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Eye, Ordinary Days, Blink

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

Being Yourself, Novelists, Want

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Boards, Looks, Impossible

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Silence, Sound, Sitting

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

Believe, Dna, Parent

Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

Order, Would Be, Want

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.

Kissing, Waiting, Forever

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Inspirational, Life, Lonely

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

Wall, Paper, Mouths

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.

Relationship, Morning, Real

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

Connected

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Art, Looks, Might

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Pain, Past, Coal

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

Positive, Thinking, Fine

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Wise, Missing, Teeth

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

Motivational, Dream, Differences

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

Travel, Doe, Where You Come

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

Mean, Past, Self

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

Morning, Thinking, Ideas

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

Children, Loss, Keys

Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.39, Harper Collins

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Order, Missing, Homesick

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

Clouds, Sky, Interesting

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1052, Simon and Schuster

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Mother, Parenting, Funny Parent

"My Sister's Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, April 6, 2004.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Life, Change, Ends

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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