Jodi Picoult: Quotes about people

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“It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Variant: It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
Source: House Rules

“People change, but only if you give them room to do it.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.
Source: Handle with Care

“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

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

Jodi Picoult

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“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

“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?”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“… when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away?"
I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy