Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 42

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• My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

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  Father, Grandmother, Order

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

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  Hate, Trying, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

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  Children, Grief, Moving

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

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  Brother, Men, Dragons

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

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  Revenge, Different, Hunger

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

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  Kindness, Doe, Pay

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

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  War, Nursing, Games

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction rather than making the blanket assumption that all commercial fiction is unworthy.

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  New York, Men, Thinking

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

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  Technology, Fans, Answers

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• If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

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  Reading, Writing, Guarantees That

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

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  Writing, Ivory Tower, Three

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• You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

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  Love, Anniversary, Boyfriend

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 02, 2015

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• What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

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  Baby, Stars, Father

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

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  Husband, Kids, Talking

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• Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

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  What If, Might, Cases

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1152, Simon and Schuster

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• I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

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  Fall, Watches, Wonderland

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

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  Moving, Dumb, Lightning

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• They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

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  Blood, Sick, Attention

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.

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  Together, Were Not Meant To Be, Littles

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

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  Daughter, Mean, Thinking

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• It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

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  Thinking, Support, Yards

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• Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

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  Judging, Witness, Wells

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• Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.

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  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

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  Way, Firsts, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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