Grows Quotes by Jodi Picoult

13 Grows quotes by Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult examines growth through the tangled web of family, love, and ethical dilemmas. In 13 excerpts you’ll see how everyday decisions can shape character and steer the course of our lives.

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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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I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

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it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing…

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Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

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Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

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Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like…

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I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they…

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I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid…

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The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes…

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That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to…

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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like…

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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved…

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All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been…

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“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."…

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“It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.”

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Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to…

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Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who…

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I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes…

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“Music is the language of memory”

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But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

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“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My”

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“The age wasn't as important as the milestones.”

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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…

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“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.…

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“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”

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“Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA…

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My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

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