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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 20

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Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Lying, Breathing, Long

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.208, Penguin

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

Real, Glasses, Water

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

Baby, Believe, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

"Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me." "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a subject." I glance at him. "It isn't." "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"

Teacher, Stupid, Writing

"House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Passion, Excess, Way

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

Hurt, Lying, Two

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

Animal, Turns, Humans

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

Night, People, Way

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

Love You, Reality, People

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

Believe, Needs, Want

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

Lying, Color, Coats

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Hurt, Pain, Love Is

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Mean, Monsters, Definitions

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

Art, Circles, Imagination

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

Girl, Memories, People

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

Running, Community, Mind

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.13, Simon and Schuster

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

War, Holocaust, Looks

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

Grandmother, Missing, Scar

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.

Home, Knowing, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

Moving, Fighting, Emotion

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Sacrifice, Winning, Order

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

Dying, Persons

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

Hurt, Children, Love You

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

Heaven, Break

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

Growing Up, Doors, Faces

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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