Handle With Care Quotes

• ‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rooms, Sticks, Stranger

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Names, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Life, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Want, Truth Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Promise, Together

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Pain, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Art, Care

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3642, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Wish, Care

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know." ..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Names, When You Love Someone

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• I should come with a consumer warning, like the labels that say "Handle with care" or "May be hazardous to your health." I am unfit for human consumption. I struggle to articulate how awful and isolating this feels, but I can't find the words.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Labels, Warning

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• I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Circles

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

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