Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 11

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• I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Heart, Sleep

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

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  Children, Grief, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

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  Moving, Kids, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

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  Heart, Thinking, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

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  Heart, Body, Broke

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

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  Broken, Waiting, Wheels

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Memories, Years, Two

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

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• Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

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  Reality, Miracle, Needs

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

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  Mistake, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

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  Running, Animal, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.

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  Falling In Love, Children, Grief

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• anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

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  Information, Know How, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

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  Running, Pain, Air

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

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  Love Is, Sight, Looks

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• It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

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  Party, Sacrifice, Third Parties

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

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• It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

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  Sweet, Butterfly, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

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  Simple, Expectations, Comfort

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.

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  Letting Go, Peers, Body

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• It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

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  Rocks, Two, Once Upon A Time

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

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  Differences, Waiting, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

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  Imagine, Certainty, Sixth Sense

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

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  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

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  I Realized

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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• She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

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  Forever, Hem, Littles

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.721, Simon and Schuster

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• Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out." I wince. "Do you have to be quite so graphic?" "What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?

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  Mother, Distance, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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