Jodi Picoult Quotes page 10

“you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?”

Source: Between the Lines

“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“We Pisces, we're a special breed.”

Source: Handle with Care

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“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.”

“I believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.”

Source: The Storyteller

“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Source: The Storyteller

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

“When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.”

Source: Between the Lines

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

Source: The Storyteller

“We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.”

Source: Leaving Time

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

Source: Leaving Time

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?”

“Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.”

Source: Between the Lines

“She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.”

Source: Handle with Care

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“… when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”

“But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?”

Source: Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.”

“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

Source: The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”

“Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.”

Source: Handle with Care

“God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.”

Source: Handle with Care

“I only just found you, I can't lose you now”

Source: Handle with Care

“There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”

Source: Between the Lines

“parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“When this is over… we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”

“When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.”

Source: Handle with Care

“Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…. they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its 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.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.”

Source: Between the Lines

“[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.”

Source: Handle with Care