Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 23

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• Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

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  Book

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

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• If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

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  Expectations, What If, World

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

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  Love You, Thinking, Expression

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

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  Long, Realizing, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

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  Family, Mother, Instinct

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

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  Love, Names, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

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  Mean, Secret, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

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  Karma, Fate, What You Deserve

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

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  Children, Eye, Reflection

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

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  Atrocities, Done, Nightmare

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

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  Inspirational, First Love, Years

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• Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

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  Love You, Heart, People

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

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  Pain, Nice, Believe

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• Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

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  Growing Up, People, Parent

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 16, 2015

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• This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

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  Love, Thinking, Air

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• When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

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  Dog, Heart, Eye

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• I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

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  Baby, Children, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

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  Mean, Names

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.685, Simon and Schuster

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• Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

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  Loss, Different, Dialect

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

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  Matter, No Matter What, Get Away

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

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  Running, Fall, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.

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  Hurt, Trying, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

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  Want, Behavior, Worst

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

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  Forgiving, Able, Never Forget

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

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  Jobs, Curves, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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