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Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 9

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Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Growing Up, Mistake, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

Home, Long, Wells

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

Mother, Father, Past

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Looks, Taught, Librarian

Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.23, Harper Collins

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

Husband, Men, Llamas

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

Beach, Book, Writing

Source: www.goodreads.com

I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read it. I love that they're willing to let me go wherever I need to go as an author, and they're happy to come along for the ride as the reader.

Want, Lists, Needs

Source: www.goodreads.com

The ideas choose me, not the other way around.

Ideas, Way, Choose Me

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1408, Simon and Schuster

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

Mom, Book, Wife

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

Jobs, Self, Library

Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

Love You, Men, Balance

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

Beautiful, Eye, Dark

"House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

War, Survivor, Remember

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

Baby, Pain, Eye

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

Suffering, Want, Sin

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

Knowing, Identification, Knowing Someone

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

Party, Sacrifice, Third Parties

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

Sweet, Butterfly, Glasses

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

Simple, Expectations, Comfort

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

Wall, House, Bleeding

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.648, Simon and Schuster

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Believe, Silly, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

Hurt, Heart, Dark

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

Daughter, Mother, Different

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.678, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

Mom, Mother, Kids

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Sky, Glimpse, Moments

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.681, Simon and Schuster

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