Jodi Picoult: Likeness

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“My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“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

“Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

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

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Variant: when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw
Source: House Rules

“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”

Source: Vanishing Acts

“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

“He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.”

Source: Between the Lines