Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 7

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• A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

  Jodi Picoult

  Tolerance, Enough, Live And Let Live

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• I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Children, Night

  "My Sister’s Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, 2005.

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• Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same person you fell in love with in the life before, and the one before that. Sometimes, you might miss her - she'd be reborn in post-World War I generation, and you wouldn't come back until the fifties. Sometimes, your paths would cross and you wouldn't recognize each other. Get it right - that is: fall madly, truly, deeply - and perhaps there'd be an eternity carved out solely for the two of you.

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  War, Fall, Past

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

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  Hero, Mean, Waiting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Process, Publishing

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• Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

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  Fall, Thinking, Choices

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• After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

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  Stress, Heart, Broken

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• Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

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  Memories, Doors, Behinds

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

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  Faces, Torn

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.374, Penguin

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• I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

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  Love, Dating, Saying Thank You

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

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  People, Together, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

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  Stills

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

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  My Family, My Sisters Keeper, Ought

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

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  Getting What You Want, Cautionary Tales, Disappoint

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

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  Lonely, People, World

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #1: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Plain Truth, and Salem Falls”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

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  Lying, Rescue, Greater Good

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.742, Simon and Schuster

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• All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

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  Air, Would Be, Stories

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

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  I Love You, Falling In Love, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

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  Strong, Lying, Sucker

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• The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.

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  Thinking, Sea, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

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  What If, Whole Life, Whole

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• Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

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  Caring, Lawyer, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.

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  Song, Heart, Eye

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