Top 100 Quotes About Jodi Picoult
#1. There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
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#2. I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read it. I love that they're willing to let me go wherever I need to go as an author, and they're happy to come along for the ride as the reader.
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#3. It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.
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#4. At some time or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thing humans had in common.
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#5. Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.
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#6. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.
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#8. Do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
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#9. It's times like this I am glad I don't look people in the eye. If I did, surely they would die on the spot from the contempt shooting out of mine.
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#10. So what do you think the physical effect was?"
Roman Laughed. "Buddy," he said, "she was tripping.
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#11. Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air. It is the place I come back to, no matter where I've been headed.
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#12. I reach for the Band-Aids and shake them across all her charts and folders and files. "Flesh color," I read on the box. "Tell me, which one of these is flesh color? My flesh color?" Two
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#13. Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
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#14. It is such a heady rush to be the object of someone's attention in a good way, not as a freak, that I keep forgetting to hide.
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#15. Since birds took flight, they were closer to the spirit world than man was, so ignoring a message from a bird might mean missing some warning or promise from powers greater than oneself.
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#16. My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
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#17. As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
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#18. True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.
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#19. I also know that Edison believed the moment between being awake and being asleep was a veil, and it was in that moment that we were most connected to our higher selves.
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#20. How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.
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#21. How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.
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#22. People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.
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#23. There are three choices for a woman like me:
1) Be sad and lonely
2) Be the one who is cheated on
3) be the other woman
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#24. She was making a conscious effort to take with her all the best things about the world she wanted to leave, just in case memories could be car-ried in one's pockets and used to plot out the course of whatever it was that came next
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#25. I hadn't been thinking, actually. I was just trying to get to a place where I'd be noticed.
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#26. Just so you know," I begin, "when they say 'Once upon a time' ... they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.
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#27. On that first date, I asked him what he saw in me. And he said, My future.
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#28. But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?
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#29. On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.
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#30. What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?
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#31. When you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
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#32. I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.
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#33. Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
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#34. The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.
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#35. No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
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#36. The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
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#37. A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.
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#38. Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.
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#39. It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.
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#40. The problem was , you never heard anyone say,wow, check out the brain on that babe.
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#41. Edward: "Wait
you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The thing is, I'm not. Straight, I mean.
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#42. Could you hate your son for what he had done, and still love him for who he had been? The
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#44. If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
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#45. Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you."
To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.
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#46. They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.
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#47. True love is felonious ... You take someone's breath away ... You rob them of the ability to utter a single word ... You steal a heart.
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#48. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
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#49. When you die, you die. And everything is over.
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#50. It's like a telescope. My dad, no matter what he's doing, zooms right in so he can't see anything except what's right there with him at that minute. My mom, she's always on wide angle.
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#51. I'm very sorry - the only words that could not rework into anything but what they signified.
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#52. At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.
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#53. Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.
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#54. If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?
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#55. If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.
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#56. What is interesting is that elephants can accurately and reliably figure out who is friend and who is foe. Compare this to us humans, who still walk down dark alleys at night, fall for Ponzi schemes, and buy lemons from used-car salesmen.
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#57. Someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply
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#59. If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.
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#60. I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
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#61. A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.
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#62. If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward
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#63. She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
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#64. The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
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#65. Can a person hold tightly to two thoughts that look, at first sight, as if they'd cancel each other out?
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#66. I had not meant to leave them; i had only meant to leave. i wasnt running away from them; i was only running away
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#67. The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.
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#68. Tears have a whole different melody, didn't they? without the pain threaded through them?_ nineteen minutes .
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#69. Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there.
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#70. 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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#71. Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.
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#72. The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.
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#74. HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it a crime to be biologically relevant? She
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#75. He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,
every time.
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#76. The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.
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#77. They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.
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#78. Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.
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#79. Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that,' Raymon replied, 'are white.
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#82. You can have the best intentions, but the moment there's a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.
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#83. Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
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#84. No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The National Socialist German Workers Party, it was that ray of light. Nothing else was working to fix Germany
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#85. It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
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#86. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the broom this morning.
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#87. We may not have the power yet, but what we have is each other.' My
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#88. It is almost always impossible to get an abused child to admit who's abusing her.
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#89. What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
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#90. If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way.
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#91. Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven - as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys: it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. - DAN CHIASSON, The Elephant
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#92. Nurse: "You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet."
Joe: "I'm actually a lawyer."
Nurse: "My condolences.
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#93. I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love - well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. As
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#95. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
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#96. It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.
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#97. People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?
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#98. Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.
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#99. Any military man will tell you that the way to pull two divided groups together is to give them a common enemy. This is what Hitler did, when he came to power in 1933 as chancellor.
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#100. What I was really researching was not how elephants deal with loss but how humans can't. And
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