Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 2

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• words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Mean, Joy

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

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  Past, Forgiving, Important

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 07, 2015

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  You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

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  Moving On, Past, Behind You

  Jodi Picoult (2001). “Salem Falls”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

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  Thinking, People, Ordinary

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

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  Powerful, Believe, Drug

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

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  Children, Loss, Keys

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

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  Children, Pregnancy, Motherhood

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

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  True Love, Heart, Love Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

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  Daughter, Hands, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

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  Order, Missing, Homesick

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

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  Lying, Want Something, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.

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  Kissing, Waiting, Forever

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• Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

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  Wise, Missing, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.

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  Relationship, Morning, Real

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• You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

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  Connected

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• Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

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  Love, Attitude, Matter

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• I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

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  Art, Looks, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

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  Truth, Lying, Believe

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• Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

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  Details, Sometimes, Forget You

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

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  Pain, Past, Coal

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

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  Motivational, Dream, Differences

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Clouds, Sky, Interesting

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1052, Simon and Schuster

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• if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

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  Positive, Thinking, Fine

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

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  True Love, Love Is, Air

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• People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

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  Love, Life, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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