Jodi Picoult Quotes about Loss

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To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

Jodi Picoult

Children, Loss, Keys

Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.39, Harper Collins

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Jodi Picoult

Death, Heart, Loss

Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.215, Penguin

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Jodi Picoult

Loss, Innocence, Trauma

Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

Jodi Picoult

Loss, Gone, Paradox

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.9, Simon and Schuster

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Jodi Picoult

Sister, Sibling, Loss

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Jodi Picoult

Loss, Remember Something, Happened

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

Jodi Picoult

Loss, Dark, Light

Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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

Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

Jodi Picoult

Moving, Loss, Space

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.183, Simon and Schuster