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I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

Jodi Picoult
Growing Up, People, Missing
Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.116, Ballantine Books

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

Jodi Picoult
Hurt, Growing Up, Lying
Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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

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

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

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

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Jodi Picoult
Growing Up, Mean, Kids
Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

Jodi Picoult
Growing Up, Doors, Faces
Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

Jodi Picoult
Growing Up, Teenager, Moving

All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

Jodi Picoult
Wall, Growing Up, Smart

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Jodi Picoult
Growing Up, People, Parent
FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 16, 2015

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Jodi Picoult
Growing Up, Looks, Lines
Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.

Jodi Picoult
Growing Up, One Day, Alarms

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.

Jodi Picoult
Mother, Growing Up, Father

Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

Jodi Picoult
Growing Up, Voice, Sick
Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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