Jodi Picoult Quotes About Leaving

Quotes about: Leaving

• You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

  Jodi Picoult

  Leaving, Pieces, World

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

• If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

  Jodi Picoult

  Leaving, Watches, Done

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.804, Simon and Schuster

• She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Animal, Leaving

• Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

  Jodi Picoult

  Knowing, Decision, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.190, 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

• I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Missing, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

• I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (1995). “Harvesting the Heart: A Novel”, p.250, Penguin

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