Jodi Picoult Quotes about Grief

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I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

Jodi Picoult

Grief, Thinking, Ugly

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.182, Ballantine Books

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Jodi Picoult

Grief, Mean, Joy

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Jodi Picoult

Grief, Judging, Boundaries

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.5, Simon and Schuster

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Jodi Picoult

Life, Grief, Envy

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Grief, Heart

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.

Jodi Picoult

Falling In Love, Children, Grief

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Jodi Picoult

Grief, Loss, Past

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

Jodi Picoult

Grief, Two

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

Jodi Picoult

Grief, Earth, Healed

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

Jodi Picoult

Mother, Father, Grief

Jodi Picoult (2004). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.591, Simon and Schuster

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

Jodi Picoult

Time, Grief, School

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

Jodi Picoult

Grief, Bereavement, Band

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.

Jodi Picoult

Regret, Grief, Angel

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

Jodi Picoult Quotes about Grief

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