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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 37

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I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

Religious, Wall, Believe

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

Kissing, Important, Lasts

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

Responsibility, Easier, Happens

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

Believe, World, Might

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

Men, Ordinary, World

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

Rooms, Jacob, Entropy

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Looks, Way, Remember

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

People

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

Dark, Watches, Matter

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

May, Way, Lost

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

Daughter, Children, Son

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

Expectations, Way, Beats

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Butterfly, Hands, Dying

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.235, Penguin

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

Facts, Might, Lifetime

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Faces, Sun, Blind

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.156, Penguin

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

Heart, Wind, Alive

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

Blue, Years, Sky

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

Fighting, Numbers, Shapes

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Perfectly Normal, Looks, Might

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Cat, Wind, Needs

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Reality, Opposites, Expectations

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1018, Simon and Schuster

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

Ready, Happens, Knows

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

Doors, Decision, Waiting

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

Thinking, Long, Pits

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1311, Simon and Schuster

...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

Feels Just, Space, Substance

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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