Jodi Picoult Quotes

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• Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

  Jodi Picoult

  Forget, Worried, Celebrate

  Interview with Kat Tancock, www.canadianliving.com. January 22, 2007.

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• I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Children, Play

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  There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

  Jodi Picoult

  Happiness, Happy, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

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  There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Recovery, Dark

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Eggs, Height

  "Salem Falls". Book by Jodi Picoult (Page 112), www.huffingtonpost.com. 2001.

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• The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

  Jodi Picoult

  Succeed, Desperate, Nothing To Lose

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Believe, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Thinking, Stories

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Soul, Firsts

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• Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Sometimes, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.437, Simon and Schuster

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• This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perfect, Heartbeat, Photograph

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Ordinary Days, Blink

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

  Jodi Picoult

  Boards, Looks, Impossible

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• You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Order, Would Be, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

  Jodi Picoult

  Writing, Might, Pages

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• Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hero, Simple, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Language Of Love, Language

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• The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Light, Together

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• Happiness is what you choose to remember.

  Jodi Picoult

  Remember, You Choose

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• And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Names, Missing, Able

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Past, Self

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Believe, Belief

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Kindness, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

  Jodi Picoult

  Views, Way, Looks

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