Jodi Picoult Quotes - Page 8

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• When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

  Jodi Picoult

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.41, 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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• Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

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  Happened, Ifs

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• There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

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  Want, Reason, Human Condition

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

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  Wall, Promise, Castles

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

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  Would Be, Imagine, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

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  Miracle, Happened

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.610, Simon and Schuster

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• What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

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  Sweet Love, Giving, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

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  Ocean, Want, Drowning

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

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  Real, Squares, Knowing

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

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  Tongue, Forget, Tattooed

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

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  Memories, Balance

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

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  Loss, Remember Something, Happened

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

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  Get Well, Sick, Wells

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.

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  Life, Wall, Details

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be.

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  Thinking, Long, Special

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1237, Simon and Schuster

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• She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

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  People, Understood, Fronts

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

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  Mistake, Perfect, Different

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.865, Simon and Schuster

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• When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

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  Over You, Said, Remembered

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