Jodi Picoult: Doing

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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.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”

Jodi Picoult

“They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home