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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 21

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Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

Mistake, Perfect, Different

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.865, Simon and Schuster

You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

Baby, Pain, Winning

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

Heaven, Want, Life Is

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

Lying, Toffee, Never Quit

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Distance, Uncomfortable

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

Memories, Eyelids, Perfume

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Inspirational, Lessons, Taught

FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 14, 2015

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

Sister, Mother, Children

Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a man who couldn't live without me, a man who pictured my face when he closed his eyes, who loved me when I was a mess in the morning and when dinner was late and even when I overloaded the washing machine and burned out the motor. [My son] stares up at me as if I can do no wrong. I have always wanted someone who treats me the way he does; I just didn't know that I'd have to give birth to him.

Morning, Eye, Son

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

Hurt, Bird, Get Better

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.170, Penguin

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

Love, Care, When You Love Someone

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Believe, Bamboo, Firsts

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

Answers, Window, Parking

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

Growing Up, Teenager, Moving

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

When You Love Someone, Crime, Love Someone

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it was so that she could see what was on the other side, but really, it was so that she wouldn't have to look at herself. That, and because she thought she might be able to steal a piece of glass when no one was looking, and use it to carve her heart out of her chest.

Girl, Heart, Glasses

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

Fire, Helping, Remember

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

Thinking, People, Looks

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

Love, Hurt, Crazy

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

Prayer, Land, Giving

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

Drama, Silly, Order

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.15, Simon and Schuster

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

Together, World, Changing The World

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

Girl, May, Want

Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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