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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 25

All Quotes Adoption Age Art Awareness Balance Belief Blame Bones Bus Challenges Changing The World Character Childhood Children Choices Church Country Crime Dad Darkness Disappointment Doubt Drama Dying Earth Energy Evil Expectations Falling In Love Fate Feelings Fighting Finding Yourself Focus Giving Giving Up Grief Growing Up Guilt Happy Endings Hate Heart Heaven Hell Home Honesty House Hurt Husband Imagination Inspirational Journey Judging Kindness Kissing Language Leaving Letting Go Life Lifetime Loneliness Losing Loss Lost Love Love Luck Lying Marriage Mask Memories Mom Morning Motherhood Once Upon A Time Pain Parenting Past Prayer Rain Reading Reality Regret Responsibility Revenge Risk Running Sacrifice School Silence Sin Skins Sleep Son Sorrow Soul Struggle Suffering Summer Trauma True Love Waiting Wall War Water Wife Winning Writing

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?

Missing, Answers, Want

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

Believe, Heart, Sunset

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

Loud, Said, Happened

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.868, Simon and Schuster

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Games, Long, Ears

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

Time, Grief, School

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

Believe, Gay, Choices

I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Powerful, Believe, Odds

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

School, Thinking, Would Be

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

Describing, Knows, Ifs

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Block, Believe, Writing

"Jodi Picoult on Writing, Publishing, and What She’s Reading". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. April 3, 2012.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

Relationship, Sweet, Important

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Depression, Past, Reason

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

Hurt, Pain, Cutting

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

Wonderful, Awareness, Remarkable

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

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

Matter, Way, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

Ignorance, Walking Through Life, Trying

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.579, Simon and Schuster

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

Would Be, My Sisters Keeper, Easier

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

Sleep, Night, Love Is

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

Beautiful, Falling In Love, Gone

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.632, Simon and Schuster

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Love Is, Thinking, Someone You Love

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

Legal System, Way, Hell

Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

Children, People, Different

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

Events, Audience

Source: nudge-book.com

Everyone still deserves to have their say.

Stills, Deserve

Source: www.wbur.org

I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

Book, Reading, Night

FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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