House Rules Jodi Picoult Quotes

#1. And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

#2. It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

Jodi Picoult

#3. I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.

Jodi Picoult

#4. Only the liar knows that he's lying.

Jodi Picoult

#5. There are many Israelis who live abroad and love the country.

Beny Steinmetz

#6. Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Criss Jami

#7. What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Jodi Picoult

#8. I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

Jodi Picoult

#9. Frankly, people don't make sense to me.

Jodi Picoult

#10. It's been forever.' The words are quiet, hidden against his shoulder.
'That's because,' Oliver says, 'you were waiting for me.' He slips aside the sweater again and kisses my collarbone.

Jodi Picoult

#11. Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

Eric Holder

#12. All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.

Isabel Allende

#13. It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Jodi Picoult

#14. Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

Eric Hoffer

#15. If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it.

Jodi Picoult

#16. My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen.
My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him.

Jodi Picoult

#17. I never thought about being an actor.

Danny Glover

#18. I know plenty of dances. My favorite is called Not Getting Your Legs Broken for Stealing Figs from That Baker on Pearl Lane." "That's sure to charm the princess right into a wedding pact.

Jessica Khoury

#19. You should hire the best engineer you can find, regardless of her coding preference, because if she's the best she can down enough Java to C how to make the Python Go.

Eric Schmidt

#20. A lot of times we set ourselves up to fail. It's interesting. A lot of times the resolutions we choose are the ones, like you said in the opening, we keep breaking over and over again. Sometimes it reflects parts of ourselves that we really need to accept instead of trying to change.

Cheryl Richardson