Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 13

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• So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

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  Eye, I Love Him, Sight

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• You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

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  Baby, Children, Sleep

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

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  Sometimes, Wonder, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

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  Eye, Light, Oxygen

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• It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

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  Disappointing, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

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  Running, Work Out, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• It's choice that makes us human.

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  Choices, Humans

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

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  Believe, Stills, Hard

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• I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

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  What Matters, Matter, Opinion

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Nineteen Minutes: A novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.

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  Believe, Fate, Blame

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

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  Needs, Awake

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

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  Hockey, Hair, Color

  "Nineteen Minutes". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 6, 2007.

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• I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

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  Daughter, Empathy, Cry

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

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  Children, Mean, Law

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

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  Home, Guy, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

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  Growing Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

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  Home, Long, Wells

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• To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

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  Reality, Looks, Like Something

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• A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

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  Men, Way, Moral

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

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  Darkness, Determined, Window

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.658, Simon and Schuster

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• Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

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  Trust, Faith, Jumping

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

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  What If, Vanishing, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

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  Beautiful, Lost Love, Rainbow

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

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  Feel Better, Who I Am, Want

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• If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

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  Long, Pockets, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.8, Harper Collins

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