Jodi Picoult citations (599 citations, Page 7)

Variante: Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

“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.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

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Source: Between the Lines

“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.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

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“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?”

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Jodi Picoult livre Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires.
~Brian Fitzgerald”

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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

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Jodi Picoult livre Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.”

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“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”

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Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

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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.”

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Source: Vanishing Acts

“There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?”

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Jodi Picoult livre Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

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Jodi Picoult livre Handle With Care

Variante: Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Source: Handle with Care

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”

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Jodi Picoult livre House Rules

Source: House Rules

“It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.”

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Jodi Picoult livre The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle