Children Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

— Jodi Picoult

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

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I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

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No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

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“I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child.”

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“Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.”

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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.”

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As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could…

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I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our…

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“Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you…

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I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would…

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When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any…

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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted…

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“Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google…

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And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect…

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“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube.…

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As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity…

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There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if…

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The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets…

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“I have met convicted child molesters before. They don't waer badges or brands or tattoos announcing their vice. It's hidden under a…

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“So don't judge me, unless you've fallen asleep on a couch with your ill child, thinking this night might be her last.…

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There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death…

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Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant;…

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Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow…

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“Once, Lacy had been present at the birth of an infant that was missing half its heart. The family had known their…

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“It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love all of my…

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“It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love all of my…

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“I don't have children. I can't say I'd feel the same way if one of them was killed. And I don't have…

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“Cards seven and eight were the enemies plotting against him. "These are both great cards," I said. "This is a child who's…

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“I remember my mother telling me that, when she was a little girl in Catholic school, the nuns used to hit her…

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“Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there…

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“A child who suffers from PTSD has made unsuccessful attempts to get help, and as the victimization continues, he stops asking for…

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“Your child is hurt. How quickly can you make it better? What if you can't?”

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“I'm a daughter from a strong man and beautiful mommy, and I'm so proud to be I am.”

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Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

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Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

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“She had learned long ago that no matter how difficult it was to see your child struggling for air, you could not…

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“Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other…

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You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to…

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She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

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