Jodi Picoult Quotes about Children - Page 2

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Inspirational, Children, Adoption

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

Jodi Picoult

Baby, Children, Parenting

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Jodi Picoult

Mom, Mother, Children

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Eye, Reflection

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

Jodi Picoult

Children, People, Different

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

A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum.

Jodi Picoult

Mom, Children, Kids

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

Jodi Picoult

Children, Hate, Writing

Source: nudge-book.com

As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

Jodi Picoult

Mother, Children, Superhero

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.521, Simon and Schuster

You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

Jodi Picoult

Jobs, Children, Responsibility

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Luck, Belief

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

Jodi Picoult

Mother, Baby, Children

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

I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?

Jodi Picoult

Mother, Children, Thinking

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.250, Penguin

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

Jodi Picoult

Mother, Children, Risk

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Long, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Jodi Picoult

Mom, Mother, Children

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

Jodi Picoult

Dream, Religious, Children

"A conversation with Jodi about Sing You Home". www.jodipicoult.com.

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Thug, Leather Jackets

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

Jodi Picoult

Baby, Dog, Children

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

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Revenge, Oil

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

Jodi Picoult

Daughter, Children, Son

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Grief, Moving

Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Age, Favors

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

Jodi Picoult

Jobs, Children, Home

"Mercy". Book by Jodi Picoult, 1996.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Hate, Firsts

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

Jodi Picoult

Tattoo, Art, Children

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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