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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 41

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There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Night, World, Want

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

War, Space, People

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

Father, Grandmother, Order

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

Hate, Trying, Doe

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

Children, Grief, Moving

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.6, Simon and Schuster

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

Brother, Men, Dragons

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Revenge, Different, Hunger

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Kindness, Doe, Pay

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

War, Nursing, Games

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

Writing, Kids, Age

Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

Dream, Morning, Night

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

Dream, Giving Up, Mean

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

Country, Believe, Punishment

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Husband, Writing, Character

Every year I tell myself that I’m not going to read any reviews and then I do. We’re all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it’s part of the game, you’re going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that’s how it goes. I don’t write for the reviews.

Hurt, Writing, Thinking

"Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

Gay, Thinking, Rights

"A conversation with Jodi about Sing You Home". www.jodipicoult.com.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

Book, Next, Surprise

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

Lying, Men, Class

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

Stars, Night, Mourning

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.244, Ballantine Books

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

Children, Age, Favors

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

Glasses, Normal, Cracks

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

Writing, Thinking, Issues

"Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". "Morning Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

Two, Speed, My Friends

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

People, Together, Different

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

Writing, Kids, Hands

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