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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 44

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I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

Kind

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

Mirrors, Looks, Who We Are

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Marriage, Giving Up, Mean

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

Lonely, Stars, Home

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

I found plain truth very interesting.

Interesting, Found, Very Interesting

But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

Believe, Ties, Track

But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper

Mother, Thinking, Battle

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

Children, Parent, Used

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.694, Simon and Schuster

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

Thinking, Land, Funny Things

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

Baby, Tiny

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.881, Simon and Schuster

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

Believe, Fall, Hiking

But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her. There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the sound of snow falling and hear her footsteps.

Morning, Fall, Filing Cabinet

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

Father, Views, Darkness

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.

Kids, School, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

Block, Thinking, Two

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

Mother, Dna, Years

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

Ethical Issues, Answers, Moral

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.

Book, Thinking, Land

"Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

Answers, May, Pages

"Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

Hair, Red, Busy

Source: nudge-book.com

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

Moving, White, America

Source: nudge-book.com

Life can change in an instant.

Instant, Life Can Change In An Instant

Source: www.canadianliving.com

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

Book, Wind, Gone

Source: www.canadianliving.com

I think that different things sell in different countries.

Country, Thinking, Different

Source: nudge-book.com

Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

Issues, Cells, America

Source: www.canadianliving.com

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