Jodi Picoult Quotes About Honesty

Quotes about: Honesty

• Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Strength, Honesty, Wall

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

• There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

  Jodi Picoult

  Honesty, Real, Lying

• Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

  Jodi Picoult

  Honesty, Needs, Priceless

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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