Jodi Picoult Quotes about Feelings

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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.

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.

Jodi Picoult

Thinking, Sea, Feelings

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

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

Jodi Picoult

Mother, People, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

Jodi Picoult

Pain, Feelings, Watches

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

Jodi Picoult

Drug, Feelings, Brain

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

Jodi Picoult

Memories, Heart, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.

Jodi Picoult

Home, Knowing, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

Jodi Picoult

Rip, Writing, Feelings

FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

Jodi Picoult

Feelings, Trying, Sometimes

Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

Jodi Picoult

Phones, Feelings, Email

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

Jodi Picoult

Cutting, Doctors, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

Jodi Picoult

Thinking, Upset, Feelings

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

Jodi Picoult

Feelings, One Day, Answers

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Jodi Picoult

Feelings, Reason, Enough

And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

Jodi Picoult

Blood, Space, Feelings

Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

Jodi Picoult Quotes about Feelings

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