Jodi Picoult Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• 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

• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

• Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Mistake, Sight

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

• History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Eyelids, Perfume

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

• If you ask me, music is the language of memory

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Language, Music Is

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

• See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, World, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

• I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Years, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

• When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Balance

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

• The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.

  Jodi Picoult

  Strong, Memories, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

• Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Different, Might

• Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Heart, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

• Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Eye, Artist

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

• Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Doors, Behinds

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

• it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Crazy, Thinking

• Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Flower, World

  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.35, Simon and Schuster

• If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Memories, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

• There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Heart, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin