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Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American writer. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Currently approximately 14 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. May 1966
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Works

My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult
Handle With Care
Handle With Care
Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult
Handle With Care
Handle With Care
Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
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Famous Jodi Picoult Quotes

“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy (1996)

“I think you can love a person too much.

You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.”

Jodi Picoult

“Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.”

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult Quotes about love

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: When you love someone you let them take care of you.
Source: Handle with Care

“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?”

Jodi Picoult

“You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

“Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Jodi Picoult Quotes about people

“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Variant: It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
Source: House Rules

“People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

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“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult Quotes

“If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and out spilled a million stars, like a fountain of tears.

Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder.. But mostly it didn't, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright that the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didn't tell them, though, was that in the daytime, they'd never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky to the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness.

The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldn't fall. She spent the rest of her time holding onto whatever scraps she had left.”

Jodi Picoult

“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. […] The thing is, they're both you.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

The Story Teller ISBN: 978-1-4767-2783-7 (2013)
Source: The Storyteller

“The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.”

Jodi Picoult

“I don't know. But Iknow that I'm at the stage of my life where I want, not.

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“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.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

“Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”

Jodi Picoult

“Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: https://www.npr.org/2006/11/22/6524058/jodi-picoult-you-cant-edit-a-blank-page

“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 My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Variant: the people you love can surprise you every day... maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

“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?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes (2007)

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”

Jodi Picoult

“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 My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Variant: The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
Source: The Pact

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”

Jodi Picoult

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

Jodi Picoult

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

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

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”

Jodi Picoult

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