Jodi Picoult Quotes page 9

“She became whoever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?”

Source: The Storyteller

“What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.”

Source: Between the Lines

“it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.”

Source: Off the Page

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”

“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget… that you forgot about me?”

“What's worse…?
The devil you don't know… or the devil you do?”

Source: Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning?

A: Unfertilized”

“I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.”

“It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.
It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

“A bruise is how the body remembers it’s been wronged.”

“Leave it to a man to mess things up”

Source: Leaving Time

“what made you happy once might not make you happy now.”

Source: Between the Lines

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”

“We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

“In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.”

“Maybe that’s what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we’ve wounded the people we are trying to protect.”

Source: Leaving Time

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.”

“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere”

“If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.”

“Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.”

Jodi Picoult book Harvesting the Heart

Source: Harvesting the Heart

“I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.”

“A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.”

Source: The Storyteller

“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.”

“be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

Source: The Storyteller

“maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.”

Source: Between the Lines

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

“You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him”

Source: The Storyteller