Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 38

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• If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

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  Parenting, Want, Incredibles

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time."-Amelia

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  Secret, Might, Silent

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• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

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  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

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  Doe, Matter, Speak

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• if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

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  Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

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  Promise, Important, Facts

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.

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  Kissing, Age, World

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

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  Believe, Like You, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

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  Certain

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.471, Simon and Schuster

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• The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

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  Baby, Dog, Children

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

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  Heart, Play, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.

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  Summer, Hair, Snow

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.

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  Thinking, World, Problem

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1339, Simon and Schuster

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• You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

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  Fighting, Water, Mermaid

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

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  Children, Revenge, Oil

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• I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

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  Song, Skins, Violin

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• She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

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  When You Love Someone, Fierce, Wanted

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

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• All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

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  Struggle, Upside Down, Whole Life

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.892, Simon and Schuster

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• I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

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  Thinking, Ghost, Said

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

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  Missing, Lines, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• ...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

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  People, Choices, Goes On

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

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  Wind, Feet, Compass

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

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  Believe, Laughing, Tilt

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Picture Perfect”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

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  Nice, Littles, Protected

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.154, Penguin

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• Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.

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  Too Late, Alex, Care

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