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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 4

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Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

Daughter, Hands, Giving

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

Hurt, Growing Up, Lying

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?

Enemy, Beats

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Heart, Promise, Together

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

Mother, Father, Love You

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

People, Good Enough, Enough

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

Believe, Way, Doe

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

Communication, Facts, Faces

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

Fall, Wish, Raises

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

Names, Missing, Able

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

Beautiful, Toxic, Beautiful Things

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.28, Simon and Schuster

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Perceive, Happened

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

True Love, Love Is, Air

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Rocks, Ponds, Stones

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

Mom, Mother, Real

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

Hate, Squirrels, Suffering

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

Dark, Different, Alive

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.15, Simon and Schuster

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Love, Romantic, Heart

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

Distance, Dark, Different

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

Falling In Love, Heart, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Loss, Innocence, Trauma

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Sad, Children, Parent

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

Loss, Gone, Paradox

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.9, Simon and Schuster

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

Coffee, Would Be, Flavor

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

People, Why Me, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.643, Simon and Schuster

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