Jodi Picoult Quotes (595 quotes, page 4)

Variant: Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

“All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

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Source: Between the Lines

“She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

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“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.”

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“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

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“We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.”

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Source: Vanishing Acts

“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?”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Source: Handle with Care

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care