Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 44

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• There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

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  Past, Starting Over, Use

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.378, Penguin

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• I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

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  Views, Lovely, Able

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

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  Talking, Sitting, I Smile

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• [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

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  Weekend, Talking, Lunch

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• People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

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  Real, Wind, People

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

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  Loss, Missing, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

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  Thinking, Decision, Realizing

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

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  Cheese, Like You, Boxes

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1131, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

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  Brain, Wow, Problem

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

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  Blood, Space, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

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  Character, Talking, Tip Of The Iceberg

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

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  Dying, Stories, Reason

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Who spit in your porridge?

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  Spit, Porridge

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the book and I see her face, I can barely remember what I'm supposed to say, much less how to speak at all." I test the words on my tongue. "I think I might be in love with her. But how can I really know, since the only love I've ever experienced was written for me?

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  Book, Thinking, Want

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

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  Night, World, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

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  War, Space, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

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  Ethical Issues, Answers, Moral

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

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• There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.

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  Book, Thinking, Land

  "Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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• I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

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  Answers, May, Pages

  "Thinking a Little Harder". Interview with Nikki Tranter, www.popmatters.com. May 4, 2005.

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• I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

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  Hair, Red, Busy

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

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  Moving, White, America

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• Life can change in an instant.

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  Instant, Life Can Change In An Instant

  Source: www.canadianliving.com

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• The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

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  Book, Wind, Gone

  Source: www.canadianliving.com

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• I think that different things sell in different countries.

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  Country, Thinking, Different

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

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  Issues, Cells, America

  Source: www.canadianliving.com

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