Jodi Picoult: Someone

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“I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy

“there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.”

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

“Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“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

“she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes… And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home