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Jodi Picoult Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“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: Don't Go Back, Acceptance
“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Tagged: worry, Anxiety
“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Dogs, humans, Family
“In my first memory, I am three years old and I am trying to kill my sister.”
— Anna Fitzgerald, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: First Lines, first lines of books, Killing, Sisters
“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Sister Love
“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
Tagged: Love, True Love, Unconditional Love, Family Love, Perfect, imperfect
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: said to exes, Broken Heart
“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact: A Love Story
Tagged: Love, Death, Suicide, What It Feels Like To Die
“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
“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Tagged: Pivotal Moments, Change, Perspective, Life
“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”
— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Tagged: Loss, Death, Moving On
“There was nothing left to say.”
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact: A Love Story
Tagged: Nothing To Say, First Lines, first lines of books
“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning.”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Tagged: Feeling Suffocated, Underwater, Feeling Down, Drowning
“I taste her and realize I have been starving.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Tagged: Love, Lust, Desire, Kissing, Passion, Sex
“You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Tagged: equal rights, same-sex, Acceptance
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Tagged: Grief, Mourning, Time
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