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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 5

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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

Dad, Father, Fire

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

Together, Letters, Should

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.

Children, Decision, Parent

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.

Perfect, Next, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Doubt, Battle, Weapons

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

Love, Attitude, Matter

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Mother, Sorrow, Fingertips

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

Believe, Belief, Accepting

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

Wine, Water, Lord

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.

Mother, Baby, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Sister, Sibling, Loss

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

Pain, Hands, Choices

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

Disappointment, Mistake, Believe

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Love, Inspirational, Marriage

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

Writing, Garbage, Force

FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Life, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Important, Watches, My Sisters Keeper

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

Letting Go, Pain, Rip

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.

Inspirational, Two, People

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Picture Perfect”, p.93, Hachette UK

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.

Children, Thinking, Stories

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.

Love You, Eye, Love Is

Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

Memories, Mistake, Sight

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.

Girl, Women, Home

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me believe that along the way I must have done something right.

Children, Grateful, Believe

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.

Love, Girl, Princess

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