Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 30

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• Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

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  Falling In Love, Years, Car

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

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  Mom, Stars, Dad

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.

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  Baby, Falling In Love, Eye

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• You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

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  Hurt, Mean, Mind

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• In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

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  My Sister, Ends

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

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  Lying, Would Be, Imagine

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• Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

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  Cutting, Blood, Ears

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• We Pisces, we're a special breed.

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  Special, Pisces

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

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  Mother, Morning, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

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  Men, Guy, Band

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

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  Regret, Ocean, Water

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

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• Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

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  Pain, Maps, Treasure

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

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  Balance, One Day, Legs

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• That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

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  Running, Jobs, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.

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  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.

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  Honesty, Real, Lying

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• I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

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  Second Chance, Giving, People

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Aug 28, 2015

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• Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

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  Hate, Dimes, Tails

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

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  Love You, Effort, Sides

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

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  Mistake, Loneliness, Ordinary Days

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• We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

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  Queens, Men, People

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• What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

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  Rose, Matter, Sun

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• You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

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  Fake Friends, Behind Your Back, Happened

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• You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

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  Feelings, One Day, Answers

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• I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

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  Gun, Hands, Drawing

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