Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 15

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• there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

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  Losing Friends, Triumph, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

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  People, Giving, Fiction

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• Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

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  Caring, Cookies, Sugar

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

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  World, Pretending, Saddest

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

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  Common Purpose, Wonder, Used

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

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  Mean, Luck, Forget

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

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  Leaving, Watches, Done

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.804, Simon and Schuster

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• You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.

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  Thinking, Names, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

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  Fall, Empty Places, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

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  Love You, Men, Balance

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

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  War, Survivor, Remember

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.490, Simon and Schuster

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• Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. '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. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

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  Baby, Pain, Eye

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• Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

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  Knowing, Identification, Knowing Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

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  Wall, House, Bleeding

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.648, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

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  Believe, Silly, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

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  Hurt, Heart, Dark

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

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  Daughter, Mother, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.678, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

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  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

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  Sky, Glimpse, Moments

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.681, Simon and Schuster

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• Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

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  Awards, Lawyer, Notorious

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

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  Moving, Heart, Feet

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

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  Children, When You Love Someone, Energy

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

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• So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

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  Forgotten, Complacent, Communicate

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

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  Small Acts, Growth, Cost

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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