Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 21

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• Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

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  When You Love Someone, Crime, Love Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

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  Lying, Once Upon A Time, Between The Lines

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

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  Reading, Squares, Guy

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.

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  Baby, Missing, Leaving

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

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  Lying, Breathing, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.208, Penguin

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• You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

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  Real, Glasses, Water

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

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  Distance, Uncomfortable

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• I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

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• Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

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  Mom, Book, Wife

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• My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

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  Jobs, Self, Library

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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• If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

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  Book, Character, Reality

  "Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". Morning Edition, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

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• If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

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  Laughing, Want, Plans

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

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  Two, House, Bed

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

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  Dream, Sleep, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

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  Memories, World, Want

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

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• remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

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  Fire, Helping, Remember

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

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  Thinking, People, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

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  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

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• In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

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  Lying, Differences, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

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  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

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• It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

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  Girl, May, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?" When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.

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  Answers, Window, Parking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to put her fist through a mirror. She would tell everyone it was so that she could see what was on the other side, but really, it was so that she wouldn't have to look at herself. That, and because she thought she might be able to steal a piece of glass when no one was looking, and use it to carve her heart out of her chest.

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  Girl, Heart, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

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  Funny Things, One Day, Looks

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• [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

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  Drama, Silly, Order

  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.15, Simon and Schuster

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