Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 12

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• Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

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  Care, Matter, Be Kind

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• The only monsters I have ever known were men.

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  Men, Monsters, Known

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

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• You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

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  Love You, Reality, People

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• We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

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  Believe, Needs, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

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  Lying, Color, Coats

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

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  Hurt, Pain, Love Is

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

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  Mean, Monsters, Definitions

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

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  Art, Circles, Imagination

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• 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?

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  Girl, Memories, People

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

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• Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

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  Running, Community, Mind

  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.13, Simon and Schuster

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• History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

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  War, Holocaust, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

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  Grandmother, Missing, Scar

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I love the way I feel when I am with him. I don't love the way I feel when I'm not.

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  Home, Knowing, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

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  Moving, Fighting, Emotion

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

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  Sacrifice, Winning, Order

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

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  Dying, Persons

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

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  Heaven, Break

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

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  Growing Up, Doors, Faces

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

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  Baby, Pain, Winning

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

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  Heaven, Want, Life Is

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

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  Lying, Toffee, Never Quit

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

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  Pain, Differences, One Day

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

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• Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

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  Hurt, Riding Your Bike, Tumbling Down

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

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  Ocean, Silence, Arms

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