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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 7

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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

Tolerance, Enough, Live And Let Live

I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

Baby, Children, Night

"My Sister’s Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, 2005.

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

Hero, Mean, Waiting

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

I Love You, Falling In Love, People

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

Strong, Lying, Sucker

The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.

Thinking, Sea, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

What If, Whole Life, Whole

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Caring, Lawyer, Enough

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.

Song, Heart, Eye

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

Rocks, Fabric, Problem

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.992, Simon and Schuster

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.

Doubt, Sound, Rooms

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

People, Different, Way

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

Convincing Yourself, Differences, Unhappy

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

Hurt, Disappointment, Looks

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.

Fall, Doe, Three

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

Taken, Privilege, Away From You

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Process, Publishing

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Fall, Thinking, Choices

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Stress, Heart, Broken

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Happened, Ifs

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Want, Reason, Human Condition

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

Wall, Promise, Castles

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Would Be, Imagine, Knows

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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