Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 29

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• Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

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  Want, My Sisters Keeper, Stable

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

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• But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

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  Lying, Decision, Making Love

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

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  Fire, Forever, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

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  Mistake, Long Ago, Starting Over

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.

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  Fall, Mean, Night

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

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  Believe, Hero, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• you never forget your first fall.

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  Fall, Firsts, Never Forget

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

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  Thinking, Play, People

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.

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  Regret, Grief, Angel

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• when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

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  Dream, Block, Night

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• you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

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  Hate, Decision, Made

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.

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  Memories, Crazy, Thinking

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• Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

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  Loss, Glasses, Rivers

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

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  Thinking, Missing, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

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  Home, School, Waste

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you’ve survived, or the minutes you’ve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Numbers

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• I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

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  Thinking, Ever After, Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.1036, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

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  Cutting, Doctors, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions.

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  Believe, People, One Day

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

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  Religious, Wall, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

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  Kissing, Important, Lasts

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

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  Struggle, Kids, Math

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

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  Responsibility, Easier, Happens

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

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  Believe, World, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

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  Men, Ordinary, World

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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