Quotes About My Sister's Keeper

#1. It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

Barack Obama

#2. 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

#3. But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere. - My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

#4. I am not my sister's keeper. I am my sister.

Iyanla Vanzant

#5. I glance at the house, dark and empty. "Am I my sister's keeper?" I say. Then I grin at her. "If you feel like waiting, you can come up and see my etchings.

Jodi Picoult

#6. 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.

Jodi Picoult

#7. With my heart racing, I ran in the other direction; leaving the rest of this rescue to people who actually want to be heroes.

Jodi Picoult

#8. My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, like I was made out of smoke.
That was the first time I thought that maybe I was.

Jodi Picoult

#9. There's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

Jodi Picoult

#10. i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

Jodi Picoult

#11. Oh shit, i think. my cheeks are on fire; my heart starts to pound.

Jodi Picoult

#12. You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else.
I need you, she replied.
Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Jodi Picoult

#13. Think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.

Jodi Picoult

#14. 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

#15. So i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

Jodi Picoult

#16. There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Jodi Picoult

#17. is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

Jodi Picoult

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

Jodi Picoult

#19. I find myself staring at the goldfish. Bright as a penny, he swims in circles, happy to be going nowhere.

Jodi Picoult

#20. Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Jodi Picoult

#21. something is always falling apart in me.

Jodi Picoult

#22. As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.

Jodi Picoult

#23. You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

Jodi Picoult

#24. Don't say it. Don't say 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. I'm a freak, Mom. Look at me.

Jodi Picoult

#25. I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.

Jodi Picoult

#26. if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

Jodi Picoult

#27. I don't need you. i never needed you."
"well, i fucking needed you!

Jodi Picoult

#28. I'd try to stuff myself into one of these scenarios, but it's like wearing a size five sneaker when your foot is a seven
you can get by for a few steps, and then you sit down and pull off the shoe because it just plain hurts too much.

Jodi Picoult

#29. I sometimes wonder if it's just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they're supposed to be by going nowhere.

Jodi Picoult

#30. 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.

Jodi Picoult

#31. I hadn't been thinking, actually. I was just trying to get to a place where I'd be noticed.

Jodi Picoult