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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 30

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Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

Mom, Stars, Dad

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

Jobs, World, Want

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Years, Eight, Twenties

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

We Pisces, we're a special breed.

Special, Pisces

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

Mother, Morning, Believe

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

Men, Guy, Band

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

Regret, Ocean, Water

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Pain, Maps, Treasure

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

Balance, One Day, Legs

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

Running, Jobs, Years

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.

Baby, Heart, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

Honesty, Real, Lying

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

Second Chance, Giving, People

FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 28, 2015

Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

Hate, Dimes, Tails

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

Love You, Effort, Sides

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

Love makes life a little brighter

Littles, Brighter

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

Thinking, World, Limits

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

Thinking, Perfect, Flaws

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Hurt, Heart, Broken

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

Leave it to a man to mess things up

Men, Mess

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

Real, Thinking, Idiot

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Book, Writing, Thinking

"Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". "Morning Edition", nhpr.org. March 13, 2012.

My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

Teacher, Believe, Thinking

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

Missing, Care, Lifetime

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Cutting, Together, Pieces

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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