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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 35

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And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

Parent, Gone, Reason

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

Angel, House, Atoms

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

Nice, Knowing, Fit

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

Moving, Opposites, My Sister

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

Alive, Organ Donor, My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.

Thinking, Would Be, Looks

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

something is always falling apart in me.

Fall, Falling Apart, My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

Night, Every Night, My Sister's Keeper

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

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Rooms, Sticks, Stranger

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Growing Up, Looks, Lines

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

Offering, Soul, Body

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

Doctors, Somewhere Else, Nurse

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

Phones, Feelings, Email

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

People, Giving, Rooms

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.993, Simon and Schuster

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

Finding Yourself, Links, Getting Lost

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

Easier, Results

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1153, Simon and Schuster

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

Thinking, Firsts, First Time

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

Does fate ever play by the rules?

Fate, Play, Doe

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Fitting, Things To Do, Stills

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

Law, Stronger, Needs

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

Years, Drug, What If

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

Honesty, Needs, Priceless

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

Honor, Soap Bubbles, Lines

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

Running, Thinking, Running Away

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

Lying, Decision, Making Love

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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