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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 22

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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Lying, Differences, Space

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Love, Inspirational, Pain

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

Funny Things, One Day, Looks

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

Leaving, Pieces, World

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Life, Wall, Unwanted

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

Details, Plot, Life Is

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Mother, Children, School

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

Mistake, Eye, Path

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

Strong, Needs, Need You

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

Persons, Stills

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

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Past, Woven, Finals

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship may be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better that the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life.

Falling In Love, Believe, Mean

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Inspirational, Children, Adoption

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

Stars, Fire, Rocks

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

Women, Struggle, Together

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

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

Reason, Somewhere Out There, Knows

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.699, Simon and Schuster

Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

Phones, Differences, Numbers

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

Lonely, People, Next Steps

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.

Forgiving, Doe, Matter

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

Morning, Fall, Home

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Terrible

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Odds, Differences, People

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1191, Simon and Schuster

All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

Wall, Growing Up, Smart

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

Heartache

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.959, Simon and Schuster

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

Thinking, Remember

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