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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 32

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We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

Lucky, Want

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

Eye, Swimming, Blue

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Believe, Fit, This Life

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Lying, Book, Once Upon A Time

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?

Real, Reading, Thinking

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

Lying, Fire, Rocks

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

Lying, Secret, Needs

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

People, Way, Sin

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

Years, Swim, Four

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

People, Good People

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

Knowing, Starting Over, Tasks

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

Matter, Holes

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

Past, Different, Turns

Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

People, Safety, Appreciate

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.

Memories, Flower, World

Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Warning, Habit, Shout Out

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

Life, Real, Monsters

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

Car, Kitchen, Sitting

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

Grandmother, Remember, Forget

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

Feelings, Trying, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Rip, Greed, Luck

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

Believe, Would Be, Length

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

Eye, Upset, Tears

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Mom, Mother, Children

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.

Needs, Looks, Mouths

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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