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Only one author in the world delivers excellent storytelling around controversial topics - Jodi Picoult.
Read ‘My Sister’s Keeper’, ‘Small Great Things’, ‘Nineteen Minutes’, and ‘The Pact’ and you will come to know this American author’s true brilliance.
Well, I bring you the best 31 Jodi Picoult quotes in this blog post for you that will freshen your mind.
You will find these Jodi Picoult quotes listed under various categories in this blog post for better readability.
Let’s not wait further and begin with reading these awesome quotes by Jodi Picoult-
Jodi Picoult Love quotes
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1. “Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
2. “If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
3. “You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”
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4. “There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.”
5. “What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?”
6. “There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.”
7. “How do you know she’s the one for you?
...and did you ever notice how, when she’s nervous, she sings? Off-key?
You like that?
Well, that's the thing. I think her flaws make me love her even more. She’s not perfect, but she’s perfect to me.”
8. “I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”
9. “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”
10. “What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?”
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Jodi Picoult mother quotes
11. I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
12. The best place to cry is in a mother's arms.
13. Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.
14. Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
15. I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?
16. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.
17. A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
18. 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.
19. My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.
20. What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.
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Mercy Jodi Picoult quotes
21. “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
22. “How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
23. “Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home”
24. “If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”
25. “There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't looking.”
26. “There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.”
27. “How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...”
28. “The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned.”
29. “You can't buy a clean conscience.”
30. “Virtual reality is the willing suspension of disbelief,”
31. “You simply could not define freedom to someone who did not realize they were caged.”
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Jodi Picoult Leaving Time quotes
32. “I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.”
33. “If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.”
34. “A bruise is how the body remembers it’s been wronged.”
35. “Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you’ve got, instead of what you don’t.”
36. “Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”
37. “You can have the best intentions, but the moment there’s a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.”
38. “It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it.”
39. “no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it … some stories just don’t have a happy ending.”
40. “My whole life, this is how I've defined the paranormal: can't understand it, can't explain it, can't deny it.”
41. “In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.”
42. “the universe wants from us is two things: don’t do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy.”
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Jodi Picoult My Sister’s keeper quotes
43. “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
44. “Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
45. “It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”
46. “Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
47. “I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.”
48. “Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.”
49. “There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. ”
50. “It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”
51. “The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”
52. “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.”
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The Storyteller quotes by Jodi Picoult
53. “History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
54. “Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.”
55. “Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.”
56. “It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.”
57. “If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”
58. “People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”
59. “Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”
60. “Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.”
61. “Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
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Conclusion : Jodi Picoult quotes
If you are reading this section then I am sure you’re quite moved at this moment from reading these 61 quotes by Jodi Picoult.
Truth is stranger than fiction which is why we bibliophiles prefer to live in our imaginative world most of the time.
And reading such quotes expands the boundaries of that imaginative world of ours.
BTW which of these quotes did you like the most?
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