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Jodi Picoult Quotes

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn’t just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading Picture Quote #1

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don’t mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture Picture Quote #1

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby’s eyelash, the span of a child’s hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one’s conscience Picture Quote #1

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without Picture Quote #1

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The truth doesn’t always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies Picture Quote #1

In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future Picture Quote #1

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd Picture Quote #1

For 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place Picture Quote #1

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can’t] save a single person Picture Quote #1

When you love someone more than he loves you, you’ll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he’d like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he’ll crave you in the same way you crave him Picture Quote #1

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They don’t really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn’t even be alive, if it wasn’t for Kate being sick Picture Quote #1

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question? Picture Quote #1

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever Picture Quote #1

A public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast? Picture Quote #1

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner Picture Quote #1

A guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child’s advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don’t have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job Picture Quote #1

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And another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart Picture Quote #1

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn’t follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable Picture Quote #1

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod Picture Quote #1

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn’t change anything Picture Quote #1

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn’t, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one’s back on it? Picture Quote #1

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I’d been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is Picture Quote #1

Witness testimony is always flawed. It’s better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren’t camcorders; they don’t record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction Picture Quote #1

You give her all your french fries, even when she won’t give you back onion rings,’ Sophie says. ‘And when you say her name it sounds different.’ How?’ Sophie thinks. ‘Like it’s covered with blankets Picture Quote #1

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you’ve done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid Picture Quote #1

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I’m wearing will never really fit Picture Quote #1

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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn’t just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don’t mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture (Jodi Picoult Quotes) My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? (Jodi Picoult Quotes) 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 (Jodi Picoult Quotes) You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby’s eyelash, the span of a child’s hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one’s conscience (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without (Jodi Picoult Quotes) The truth doesn’t always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies (Jodi Picoult Quotes) In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd (Jodi Picoult Quotes) For 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can’t] save a single person (Jodi Picoult Quotes) When you love someone more than he loves you, you’ll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he’d like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he’ll crave you in the same way you crave him (Jodi Picoult Quotes) They don’t really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn’t even be alive, if it wasn’t for Kate being sick (Jodi Picoult Quotes) But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question? (Jodi Picoult Quotes) He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever (Jodi Picoult Quotes) A public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast? (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner (Jodi Picoult Quotes) A guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child’s advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don’t have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job (Jodi Picoult Quotes) And another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart (Jodi Picoult Quotes) He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn’t follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable (Jodi Picoult Quotes) A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod (Jodi Picoult Quotes) You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn’t change anything (Jodi Picoult Quotes) But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn’t, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one’s back on it? (Jodi Picoult Quotes) In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I’d been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art (Jodi Picoult Quotes) 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 (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Witness testimony is always flawed. It’s better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren’t camcorders; they don’t record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction (Jodi Picoult Quotes) You give her all your french fries, even when she won’t give you back onion rings,’ Sophie says. ‘And when you say her name it sounds different.’ How?’ Sophie thinks. ‘Like it’s covered with blankets (Jodi Picoult Quotes) I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you’ve done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid (Jodi Picoult Quotes) Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I’m wearing will never really fit (Jodi Picoult Quotes)

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