Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 41

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• If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

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  Crazy, Focus, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

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  Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.201, Penguin

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• There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

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  Weapons, Protect, Protect Yourself

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

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  Children, Hate, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

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  Giving, Handicaps, Extras

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

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  Pay, Dogma, Landlord

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.

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  Believe, Hunters, Ghost

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• In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

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  Tattoo, Art, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

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  Running, Believe, Blind

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

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  Dog, Mean, Hair

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

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  Mother, Dna, Years

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• Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

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  Mother, Surface

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

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  Good Friend, Cost

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.819, Simon and Schuster

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• I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

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  Kissing, Would Be, First Kiss

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

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  Grief, Bereavement, Band

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.

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  Hands, Faces, Sides

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

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  Hurt, Fall, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

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  Looks, Invisibility, Can Not

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

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  Stars, Sky, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

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  Wonder, Adverbs, Frank

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

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  Kids, Thinking, Brain

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• If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

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  Pogo Sticks, Sticks, Asks

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

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  Normal, Belief, Settings

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• Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

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  Zebras, White, Black

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1316, Simon and Schuster

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