Quotes From "My Sisters Keeper" By Jodi Picoult

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them...
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You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. Jodi Picoult
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone,...
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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
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I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. Jodi Picoult
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could...
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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines. Jodi Picoult
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again...
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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
The bottom line is that we never fall for the...
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to. Jodi Picoult
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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. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded. Jodi Picoult
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants...
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You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Jodi Picoult
See, as much as you want to hold on to...
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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
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father:...
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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires Jodi Picoult
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A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead. Jodi Picoult
Since when does anyone get the option to do the...
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Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest? Jodi Picoult
Dylan Jerome,
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Dylan Jerome, " the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him. Jodi Picoult
Well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you...
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Well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. Jodi Picoult
If you have a sister and she dies, do you...
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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
Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my...
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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday. Jodi Picoult
I lean against my sister's shoulder.
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I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."" Sure it does, " Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move. Jodi Picoult
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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
A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
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A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you. Jodi Picoult
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Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven.But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served causedmultiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Jodi Picoult
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once...
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Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers. Jodi Picoult
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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. Jodi Picoult
Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms...
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Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl. Jodi Picoult
Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms...
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Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. Jodi Picoult
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Sara, " I ask finally, "what do you want from me?"" I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like, " she says thickly. "I want to go back, Brian. I want you to take me back." But she is not the woman I used to know, the woman who traveled a countryside counting prairie dog holes, who read aloud the classifieds of lonely cowboys seeking women and told me, in the darkest crease of the night, that she would love me until the moon lost its footing in the sky. To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her. Jodi Picoult
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage...
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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character. Jodi Picoult
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And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead. Jodi Picoult
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Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans, " I say. "Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers. Jodi Picoult
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When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. Jodi Picoult
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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. Jodi Picoult
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You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family. Jodi Picoult
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I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store–ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed babies on their sibling's knees–people who in real life probably were strangers brought together by a talent scout to be a phony family. Maybe it's not so different from real photos, after all. Jodi Picoult
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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
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I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice. Jodi Picoult
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I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway. Jodi Picoult
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It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces. Jodi Picoult
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The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak. Jodi Picoult
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Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. Jodi Picoult
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To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her. Jodi Picoult
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In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. Jodi Picoult
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Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Jodi Picoult
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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbellyof a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times Istayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that Iwould not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that myfather worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to comehome to a house that felt too big for us. Jodi Picoult
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That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be next. I had laughed. you would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip. Jodi Picoult
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What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead. . Jodi Picoult
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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
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My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one. Jodi Picoult
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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative. Jodi Picoult
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(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. Jodi Picoult
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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. Jodi Picoult
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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves. Jodi Picoult