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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 31

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A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

Beautiful, Girl, Painful

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

Crazy, Focus, Trying

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

Guy, Skins, Bus

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

Love Is, Way, Form

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

Running, Men, Running Away

I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?

Mother, Children, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.250, Penguin

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

Dog, Mean, Hair

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

Wonder, Adverbs, Frank

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Inspirational, Funny, Parenting

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

Kids, Thinking, Brain

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Pogo Sticks, Sticks, Asks

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

Normal, Belief, Settings

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Zebras, White, Black

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1316, Simon and Schuster

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

Mother, Children, Risk

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

Comfort, Taste, Wonder

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

Sorry, Boys, Light

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Fall, Sacrifice, Expectations

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

Children, Long, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

Do you remember the summer we signed you up for camp? And the night before you left, you said you've changed your mind and wanted to stay home? I told you to to get a seat on the left side of the bus, so when you pulled away, you'd be able to look back and see me there waiting for you." I press her hand against my cheek, hard enough to leave a mark. "You get that same seat in Heaven. One where you can watch me, watching you.

Summer, Home, Night

There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

Summer, Winter, Glasses

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

Parenting, Want, Incredibles

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time."-Amelia

Secret, Might, Silent

My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

Jobs, School, Skills

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

Doe, Matter, Speak

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Fire, Forever, My Sisters Keeper

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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