Jodi Picoult: Doing

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“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“You know someone's right for you when the things they don'tto say are even more important than the things they do.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”

Jodi Picoult

“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

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

…"Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

Jodi Picoult

“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“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

“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