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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 43

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I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

Way, Firsts, Enough

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

Believe, Mean, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

Thinking, Fool, Impossible

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

Believe, Want Something, Way

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Thinking, Holding On, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

Lying, Heart, Persons

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Giving, Sides, Loser

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Thinking, People, My Sisters Keeper

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Moving, Bells, Truck

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.

Mirrors, Looks, Pieces

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

First Love, Love Is, Care

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

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

Pay, Ifs

I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

Together, Cracks, Vases

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

Growing Up, Voice, Sick

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Names, Judging, Want

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

Dark, Light, I Can

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1091, Simon and Schuster

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

Ifs

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

Jobs, Children, Home

"Mercy". Book by Jodi Picoult, 1996.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

Ifs

Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.201, Penguin

There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

Weapons, Protect, Protect Yourself

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

Children, Hate, Firsts

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Giving, Handicaps, Extras

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

Pay, Dogma, Landlord

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.

Believe, Hunters, Ghost

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

Tattoo, Art, Children

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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