Jodi Picoult Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

• A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

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  Friendship, Sorry, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

• There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

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  Pain, Feelings, Watches

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

• This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

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  Feelings, Reason, Enough

• When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

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  Eye, Color, Weather

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

• The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

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  Drug, Feelings, Brain

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

• sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

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  Feelings, Trying, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

• She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

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  Phones, Feelings, Email

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

• I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

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  Cutting, Doctors, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

• The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.

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  Thinking, Sea, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

• I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.

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  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

• My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

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  Mother, People, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

• And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

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  Blood, Space, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

• I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

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  Mother, Morning, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

• Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

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  Mother, Distance, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

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  Memories, Heart, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.

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  Home, Knowing, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

• I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

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  Thinking, Upset, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

• You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

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  Feelings, One Day, Answers

• You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Writing, Feelings

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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