Jodi Picoult Quotes About Daughters

Quotes about: Daughters

• My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

• Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Hands, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

• I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Empathy, Cry

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

• Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Daughter, Husband

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

• Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Mean, Thinking

• Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Mother, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.678, Simon and Schuster

• I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.270, 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Running, Sex

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

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