Jodi Picoult Quotes page 11

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

Source: Between the Lines

“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”

Variant: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Source: Handle with Care

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

“My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together?

Bread, of course.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

“so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it… You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”

“Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“The apple… came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

“Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were
all the same, that were do-overs?”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“You can't be real," Delilah murmurs.
"Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?”

Source: Between the Lines

“Love is not an equation… It is 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.”

Source: Between the Lines

“I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive”

Source: House Rules

“There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”

Source: Handle with Care

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”

Source: Handle with Care

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

“You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.”

“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”

Source: Leaving Time

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Jacoblike a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would if I was suddenly told to bungee off the top of the Sears Tower.”

“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital… Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”

Source: House Rules

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.”

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?”

“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.”

Source: Leaving Time

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

“Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“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.”

“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”

Source: Leaving Time

“Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away?"
I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.”

Source: Handle with Care

“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.”

Source: Between the Lines

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

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

“She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.”

Source: House Rules

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.”

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Variant: Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
Source: Perfect Match

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”