Jodi Picoult Quotes about Running

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When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say,

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Jodi Picoult

Running, Fall, Two

Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

Jodi Picoult

Running, Work Out, Way

Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.

Jodi Picoult

Letting Go, Running, Leaving

Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

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Running, Animal, Rocks

Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

Jodi Picoult

Running, Pain, Air

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

Jodi Picoult

Running, Community, Mind

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.13, Simon and Schuster

I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

Jodi Picoult

Running, Fall, Eye

Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

Jodi Picoult

Running, Book, Ideas

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That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

Jodi Picoult

Running, Jobs, Years

Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

Jodi Picoult

Running, Men, Running Away

Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

Jodi Picoult

Running, Fate, Swim

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

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Daughter, Running, Sex

Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

Jodi Picoult

Running, Believe, Blind

Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.94, Simon and Schuster