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Jodi Picoult Quotes

Total quotes: 72
“When you have been burned by fire once, you don’t leap into the flames again.”
— Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
Tagged: Burned, hurt, Pain, Mistakes, Advice
“She became whoever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Tagged: purpose, goal, Life, Career, Choices
“She’s not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.”
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Tagged: interesting, beauty, different, unique
“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.”
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Tagged: Relationships, Long Distance
“The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Tagged: prayer, wishes, Universe
“So you know what I mean when I say that I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person…whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Tagged: Love, Choice, Decisions, Inevitable, Control
“You’re not a bad person because you want to be yourself.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: character, humanity, Goodness, Identity
“Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
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“I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, I think we just do. ”
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Tagged: Falling In Love, Love, Relationships, Attraction, Fate, circumstance
“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Tagged: Disappointment, Happiness, Expectations
“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
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, Loner, Fitting In, Disappointment, Blending in the world
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Love, True Love, Unconditional Love, Family Love, Perfect, imperfect
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Relationship Goals, Dating, couple
“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
Tagged: Self-Love, realizations, differences, Individuality
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper: A Novel(Wsp Readers Club)
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“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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“True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
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“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
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“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”
— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart
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“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.”
— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
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“People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.”
— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
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“It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Surprises, unexpected, Kill, Death
“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
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“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
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“It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth.”
— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart
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“I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.”
— Jodi Picoult, Change Of Heart
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“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
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“You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”
— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
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“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”
— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
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“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
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“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?”
— Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
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“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father...Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?”
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Tagged: I Love You Mom, Motherhood, Fatherhood, Unconditional Love, Love, Family, Relationships
“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Tagged: Dating, Breakups, Relationships
“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Tagged: Dating, Breakups, Relationships
“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss.”
— Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle: A Novel
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Heartbreak
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Memories, Death, Living
“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light. ”
— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Tagged: Light, Darkness, inspiration, positive
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