Plain Truth Quotes

“Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them."

Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“You get through it, you just never get over it”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?”
― Jodi Picoult , Plain Truth

“Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps."

Are you," I said. "Then tell me how."

You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“I wonder if you've got a minute."
I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's important to fit in, because that similarity of identity is what defines the society. If you don't fit in, the consequences are psychological tragic, you stand alone when all you've ever known is being part of the group.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house?”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“It’s the Lord’s will,” she said quietly. “You get through it. You just never get over it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for a child to curl close to her side; how she could be soft enough to serve as a pillow and strong enough to move heaven and earth.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“...I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“Everything you said, Ellie, it's true. I should be very angry. I was, for a time, but now I'm not. Now I've gotten past my own selfishness to where I've got to help her. See, when you're Plain, you don't put yourself forward. You just don't do it, because that would be Hochmut–puffing yourself up–and the truth is there's always others more important than you. So Katie, when she hears others telling lies about her and this baby, she won’t want to fight back, or stand up for herself. I am here to stand up for her.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“You can’t create life in a place that’s dying by degrees.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.'

'I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

“I know these ghosts. I know what it's like to move around in the world, but not really be a part of it. And I know what it's like to have people stare right through you, and not believe what they are seeing. If I exist, why can't they?”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth