My Sister's Keeper Quotes

• Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

  Jodi Picoult

  Broken Heart, Broken Love, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Doe, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Opposites, My Sister

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Way, Used

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Strong, Enough, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blood, Sick, Attention

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sleep, Night, Love Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

  Jodi Picoult

  Giving, Sides, Loser

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

  Jodi Picoult

  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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• A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fire, Forever, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Eye, Years

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• When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

  Jodi Picoult

  My Sisters Keeper, Knows, Sisters Keeper

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Jul 31, 2015

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• people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, People, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Two, House, Bed

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

  Jodi Picoult

  Important, Watches, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Years, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Tables, Realizing, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.869, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

  Jodi Picoult

  Long, Realizing, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Together, Pieces

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Details, Sometimes, Forget You

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Friendship, Sorry, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, World, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jodi Picoult

  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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• Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, People, Looks

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

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