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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 24

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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Empty, Spokes, Okay

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

Smart, Cat, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

Strength, Honesty, Wall

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Dark, Stories, Spots

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1198, Simon and Schuster

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

Wall, Nursing, Doctors

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.894, Simon and Schuster

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

Lying, Zest, Chocolate

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

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

Brain, Mouths, Able

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Hope, Lying, Reality

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

Mother, Father, Grief

Jodi Picoult (2004). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.591, Simon and Schuster

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

Apology, Defense, Built

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

Writing, Mean, Example

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

Suffering, Fiction

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

Mother, Dog, Numbers

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

Expectations, What If, World

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

Love You, Thinking, Expression

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Long, Realizing, My Sisters Keeper

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Family, Mother, Instinct

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.19, Harper Collins

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Love, Names, Different

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

Mean, Secret, Want

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

Karma, Fate, What You Deserve

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

Children, Eye, Reflection

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

Atrocities, Done, Nightmare

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Inspirational, First Love, Years

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

Baseball, Stars, Kids

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Revenge, Journey, Two

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.473, Simon and Schuster

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