Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

…as it turned out, growing up was just as she’d feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else’s thoughts in your head… or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.

Alarms

Growing Up

One Day

…because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

Feels Just

Space

Substance

…when people we love make choices, we don’t always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn’t a matter of comprehension. It’s forgiveness.

Choices

Goes On

People

…when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Look At Me

Looks

Want

“Stupid English.” “English isn’t stupid,” I say. “Well, my English teacher is.” He makes a face. “Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won’t let me.” “Why not?” “He says lunch isn’t a subject.” I glance at him. “It isn’t.” “Well,” Jacob says, “it’s not a predicate, either. Shouldn’t he know that?”

Stupid

Teacher

Writing

[I] don’t think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

Cutting

Hurt

Pain

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

Lunch

Talking

Weekend

[There’s a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It’s silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

Drama

Order

Silly

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what’ll it be? The duck doesn’t answer because it’s a duck.

Answers

Bars

Ducks

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes…And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Children

Mother

Want

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Able

Accepting

Action

Add

Adoption

Advantage

Adventure

Adverbs

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Air

Alarms

Alex

Alive

Almonds

Alternatives

America

Amish

Angel

Animal

Anniversary

Answers

Apology

Apples

Appreciate

Arena

Arms

Art

Artist

Ashes

Asking

Asks

Atheist

Atoms

Atrocities

Attention

Attitude

Audience

Autism

Avid

Awake

Awards

Awareness

Away From You

Baby

Balance

Bamboo

Band

Bars

Baseball

Battle

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Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult

…as it turned out, growing up was just as she’d feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else’s thoughts in your head… or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.

…because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

…when people we love make choices, we don’t always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn’t a matter of comprehension. It’s forgiveness.

…when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

[I] don’t think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

[There’s a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It’s silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what’ll it be? The duck doesn’t answer because it’s a duck.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes…And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

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