Jodi Picoult: Quotes about people

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“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“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

“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“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

“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 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