Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 7

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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.

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  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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

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  Rocks, Fabric, Problem

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.992, Simon and Schuster

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• Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.

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  Doubt, Sound, Rooms

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

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  People, Different, Way

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

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  Convincing Yourself, Differences, Unhappy

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

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  Hurt, Disappointment, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.

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  Fall, Doe, Three

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

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  Taken, Privilege, Away From You

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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