Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 6

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• I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

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  Family, Morning, Fall

  "10 Questions for Jodi Picoult". TIME magazine interview, www.jodipicoult.com. March 5, 2012.

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• Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

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  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

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  Stars, Father, Twilight

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

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  Doors, Window, Breeze

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

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  May, Expecting, Ready

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

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  Fall, Heart, Simple

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1002, Simon and Schuster

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• I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

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  Book, Somewhere Else, Pages

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

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  People, Lost, Drifting

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

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  Mother, Jobs, Children

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

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• Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

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  Loneliness, Mirrors

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

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  True Love, Thinking, Months

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Mercy”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

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  Running, Fall, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

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  Disappointment, Thinking, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1291, Simon and Schuster

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• What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.

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  Mother, Kids, Cracks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

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  Mean, Sacrifice, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

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  Rip, Heart, Pieces

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

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  Events, Surprise, My Favorite

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

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  People, Stains, Your Future

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

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  Names, Insane, Nine

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• a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.

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  Jobs, Children, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

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  Character, Irritation, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

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• Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

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  Grief, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

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  Advantage, Cloaks, Happenstance

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• I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

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  Suffering, Want, Sin

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

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  Differences, People, Like You

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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