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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 6

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I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart,

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Family, Morning, Fall

"10 Questions for Jodi Picoult". TIME magazine interview, www.jodipicoult.com. March 5, 2012.

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

Loneliness, Mirrors

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

Stars, Father, Twilight

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

Fall, Heart, Simple

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1002, Simon and Schuster

Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

Mother, Jobs, Children

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

Doors, Window, Breeze

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

People, Lost, Drifting

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

May, Expecting, Ready

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Book, Somewhere Else, Pages

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

True Love, Thinking, Months

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Running, Fall, Two

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

Disappointment, Thinking, Hands

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1291, Simon and Schuster

What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.

Mother, Kids, Cracks

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

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

Mean, Sacrifice, Feels

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

Rip, Heart, Pieces

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

Events, Surprise, My Favorite

Source: nudge-book.com

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

People, Together, Doe

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

Stills

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

My Family, My Sisters Keeper, Ought

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

Getting What You Want, Cautionary Tales, Disappoint

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

Lonely, People, World

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

Love, Dating, Saying Thank You

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Lying, Rescue, Greater Good

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.742, Simon and Schuster

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Air, Would Be, Stories

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same person you fell in love with in the life before, and the one before that. Sometimes, you might miss her - she'd be reborn in post-World War I generation, and you wouldn't come back until the fifties. Sometimes, your paths would cross and you wouldn't recognize each other. Get it right - that is: fall madly, truly, deeply - and perhaps there'd be an eternity carved out solely for the two of you.

War, Fall, Past

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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