Jodi Picoult Quotes

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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.

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  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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• In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

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  Sad, Children, Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

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  Life, Change, Ends

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

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  Rocks, Ponds, Stones

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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

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  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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• Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

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  Beautiful, Toxic, Beautiful Things

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Want, Sometimes, My Sisters Keeper

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

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  Fall, Eggs, Height

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

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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.

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  Views, Way, Looks

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• The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

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  Truth, Lying, Believe

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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.

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  Perfect, Heartbeat, Photograph

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

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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.

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  Hero, Simple, Hands

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

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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.

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  Forget, Worried, Celebrate

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

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• Happiness is what you choose to remember.

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  Remember, You Choose

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• Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

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  Details, Sometimes, Forget You

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.352, 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.

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  Writing, Might, Pages

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• The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

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  Differences, People, Forever

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

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  Clouds, Sky, Interesting

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1052, 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.

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  Dream, Believe, Belief

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

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  You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

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  Moving On, Past, Behind You

  Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

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  Mom, Mother, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

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  Inspirational, Kindness, People

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

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  Communication, Facts, Faces

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

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  Past, Forgiving, Important

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 07, 2015

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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.

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  Order, Would Be, Want

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

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