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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 27

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Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

Horse, Coffee, Heart

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

Beach, Turtles, Sea

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

Reading, Home, House

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

Evil People, White, Black

There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

Stars, Night, Dwarves

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

Morning, Wake Up, Pieces

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

Mother, Father, Love You

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

Girl, Moving, School

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn’t mean you’re fearless. It just means you fear different things.

Brother, Fear, Believe

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

Falling In Love, Fall, People

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

Mind, Wonder, Conversation

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.382, Simon and Schuster

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

Thinking, Names, People

"Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

Mother Daughter, Mother And Daughter, Mom And Daughter

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Technically I've improved - I might turn a metaphor in five words now, where years ago, it would have taken me a paragraph. I can't say it was intentional - but you know what they say about practice making perfect...!

Taken, Years, Practice

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

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

Book, Writing, Kids

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1408, Simon and Schuster

She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one he’ll never forget.” “You are to me,” I say.

Girl, Believe, Perfect

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1443, Simon and Schuster

Lie to yourself until it's true.

Lying

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

Jobs, Children, Responsibility

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

Country, War, Doe

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Lying, Party, Believe

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Children, Luck, Belief

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

Rip, Writing, Feelings

FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Water, Needs, Like You

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

Love, Suicide, Pain

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Desperate, Holes, Bigger

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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