Jodi Picoult Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

  Jodi Picoult

  Silence, Sound, Sitting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

• Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

  Jodi Picoult

  Horse, Coffee, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

• Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Ocean, Silence, Arms

• Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Silly, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

• There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

  Jodi Picoult

  Silence, Heavy, Beads

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

• Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Silence, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

• Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Silence, Eric

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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