Jodi Picoult Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Loss, Keys

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.39, Harper Collins

• If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

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  Sister, Sibling, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

• One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Innocence, Trauma

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

• How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

  Jodi Picoult

  Death, Heart, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.215, Penguin

• That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Gone, Paradox

  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.9, Simon and Schuster

• Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Different, Dialect

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

• It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

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  Hurt, Children, Love You

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

• You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Dark, Light

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

• I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Break Up, Breakup, Taken

• If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

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  Loss, Remember Something, Happened

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

• I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

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  Grief, Loss, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

• Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

  Jodi Picoult

  Loss, Glasses, Rivers

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

• Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

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  Moving, Loss, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

• There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Grief, Moving

  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.6, Simon and Schuster

• You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

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  Loss, Missing, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

• let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.

  Jodi Picoult

  Regret, Grief, Angel

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