Quotes from book
Handle With Care

Name: Handle With Care
Author: Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

Handle with Care is a novel by Jodi Picoult published in 2009. It debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list.

“I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.”

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“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

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Variant: When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
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“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”

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“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.”

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“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”

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

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“Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.”

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“When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.”

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

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Variant: Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.
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“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”

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“I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.”

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“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”

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“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”

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“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

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Variant: What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe ittake a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
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“Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.”

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“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”

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“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.”

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“Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.”

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