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Life Quotes by Jodi Picoult

172 Life quotes by Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult points out the gap between a life people expect you to lead and the one you truly want. She warns that dwelling on the past keeps you from moving forward, and that personal victories can feel hollow when you’ve spent years losing yourself for others. Her words also show how moral choices can blur the line between good and evil.

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Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

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Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

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When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

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“You don't borrow trouble.”

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“You don't rough them up.”

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“He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara”

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When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

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Life can change in an instant.

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Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

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What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

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That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

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“What would you grab, if you had to pack up your life in only minutes?”

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If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

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“It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught.”

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“How can you be so sure that your life is the one that's charmed?”

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“A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.”

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Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

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if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like,…

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Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture…

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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich…

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“The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with…

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“But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.”

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and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole…

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“Just in case it... doesn't work. I want you to know, Delilah. You have been the biggest adventure of my life.”

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“Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room…

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I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks…

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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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“If you had the chance, would you change what you did?" We haven't rehearsed the answer, and maybe it's the only one…

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What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine…

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Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place…

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What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what…

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“I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the…

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“My grandmother lived a remarkable life. She watched her nation fall to pieces; and even when she became collateral damage, she believed…

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“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the…

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“Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on…

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“It has taken me twenty-eight years to be able to admit that I'm glad I did not know my mother until now.…

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“If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there…

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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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He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep…

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“You can boil your life down to a single suitcase, if you desperately have to. Ask yourself what you really need, and…

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