Sisters Keeper Quotes

• Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Sometimes, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.437, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Eye, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.21, 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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• 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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• I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feel Better, Who I Am, Want

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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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• Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

  Jodi Picoult

  Silence, Sound, Sitting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.39, 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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• 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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• 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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• There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

  Jodi Picoult

  Night, World, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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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, My Sister's Keeper

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Jul 31, 2015

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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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• I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Circles

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

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• The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Bamboo, Firsts

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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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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• And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Parent, Gone, Reason

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dark, Watches, Matter

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.149, 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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• There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Would Be, My Sisters Keeper, Easier

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Anniversary, Boyfriend

  FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Oct 02, 2015

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• If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

  Jodi Picoult

  Sister, Sibling, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, My Sisters Keeper, Stable

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

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