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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 39

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Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

People, Holes, Figures

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

Only the liar knows he's lying

Liars, Lying, Knows

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.

Beautiful, Daughter, Husband

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck

Girl, Book, Here I Am

Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

That,” she says, “was never here before.

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

I'm weird. Everyone says so.

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

Regret, Book, Reading

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

Mean, Should Have, Twelve

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

Thinking, Upset, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

Mistake, Loneliness, Ordinary Days

We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

Queens, Men, People

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

Rose, Matter, Sun

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

Fake Friends, Behind Your Back, Happened

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

Feelings, One Day, Answers

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

Gun, Hands, Drawing

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

If You Love Someone, Burden, Lays

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

Found You, Found, I Can

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

Book, Wanted

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Stories, Definitions, Stones

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, People

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Home, People

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Mean, Lovely, Fiction

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

Things don't always look as they seem.

Looks, Seems

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.453, Simon and Schuster

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Feelings, Reason, Enough

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

Lying, Care, Want

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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