Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 22

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• Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

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  Together, World, Changing The World

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

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  Mistake, Eye, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

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  Mother, Children, School

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

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  Leaving, Pieces, World

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

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• You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

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  Life, Wall, Unwanted

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

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  Details, Plot, Life Is

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

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  Prayer, Land, Giving

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

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  Growing Up, Teenager, Moving

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• Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

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  Inspirational, Children, Adoption

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

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  Stars, Fire, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

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  Women, Struggle, Together

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

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  Reason, Somewhere Out There, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.699, Simon and Schuster

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• Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

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  Phones, Differences, Numbers

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

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• Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

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  Lonely, People, Next Steps

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.

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  Forgiving, Doe, Matter

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• It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

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  Odds, Differences, People

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1191, Simon and Schuster

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• It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

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  Love, Hurt, Crazy

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• All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

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  Wall, Growing Up, Smart

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• Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

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  Terrible

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• Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

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  Heartache

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.959, Simon and Schuster

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• When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

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  Expectations, Might, Honest

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• Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

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  Hate, Done, Stills

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• I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

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  Dream, Fall, World

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

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  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

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  Dad, Regret, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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