Jodi Picoult on Life
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Jodi Picoult, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Jodi Picoult, entry #2307: "All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."
Attributed to Jodi Picoult, entry #4668: "Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."
8 Quotes by Jodi Picoult on Life
"All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here."
"Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."
"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall."
"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?"
"This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder"
"What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?"
"If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."
"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"