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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 36

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She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

When You Love Someone, Fierce, Wanted

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

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Struggle, Upside Down, Whole Life

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.892, Simon and Schuster

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

Thinking, Ghost, Said

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

Missing, Lines, Might

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

People, Choices, Goes On

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

Wind, Feet, Compass

Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

Believe, Laughing, Tilt

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Picture Perfect”, p.173, Hachette UK

It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

Nice, Littles, Protected

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.154, Penguin

Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.

Too Late, Alex, Care

if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

Mistake, Long Ago, Starting Over

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

Fall, Mean, Night

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

Believe, Hero, Past

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

you never forget your first fall.

Fall, Firsts, Never Forget

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

Thinking, Play, People

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.

Regret, Grief, Angel

when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

Dream, Block, Night

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

Hate, Decision, Made

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.

Memories, Crazy, Thinking

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

Loss, Glasses, Rivers

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

Thinking, Missing, Might

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Home, School, Waste

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you’ve survived, or the minutes you’ve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.

Cutting, Thinking, Numbers

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

Thinking, Ever After, Ifs

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.1036, Simon and Schuster

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

Cutting, Doctors, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

Believe, People, One Day

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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