My Sister's Keeper Quotes

“Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Anna anna bo banna, banana fanna fo fanna, me my mo manna...Anna."
"Chuck! Do Chuck!”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Is there any place on Earth that smells better than a laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed - comfort food for your nose.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Darkness, you know, is relative.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usually I am in transit, speeding in my Jeep until my lungs give out. Today, I'm driving ninety-five down 95. I weave in and out of traffic, sewing up a scar. People yell at me behind their closed windows. I give them the finger.

It would solve a thousand problems if I rolled the Jeep over an embankment. It's not like I haven't thought about it, you know. On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive--the sum of the parts equals more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their due so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they Starr to run out of fuel,they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“You?" I start to laugh. "Look at you. You're a knock-out. You're smarter than I am. You're on a career track and you're family-centered and you probably even can balance your checkbook."

"And I'm lonely, Cambell." Jewel adds. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zipcode. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PSM. You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions.

More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Following my mother's footsteps was the surest way out.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“May be there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“You can't pay a landlord in dogma.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if it is impossible to believe that the laundry I once folded for her was doll-sized; as if I can still see her dancing in lazy pirouettes along the lip of the sandbox. Wasn't it yesterday that her hand was only as big as the sand dollar she found on the beach? That same hand, the one that's holding a boy's; wasn't it just holding mine, tugging so that I might stop and see the spiderweb, the milkweed pod, any of a thousand moments she wanted me to freeze? Time is an optical illusion- never quite as solid or strong as we think it is. You would assume that, given everything, I saw this coming. But watching Kate watch this boy, I see I have a thousand things to learn.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The safety of the rescuer is of a higher priority than the safety of the victim. Always. •”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find you're looking at a globular cluster—a million stars that, to us, presents as a single entity. On a less dramatic note there are triples, like Alpha Centauri, which up close turns out to be a double star and a red dwarf in close proximity.

There's an indigenous tribe in Africa that tells of life coming from the second star in Alpha Centauri, the one no one can see without a high-powered observatory telescope. come to think of it, the Greeks, the Aboriginals, and the Plains Indians all lived continents apart and all, independently, looked at the same septuplet knot of the Pleiades and believed them to be seven young girls running away from something that threatened to hurt them.

Make of it what you will.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child ..it’s because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I asked her sister for a cell number, at least, but something tells me that 401-GO2-HELL is out of service.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I remember everything Campbell," she interrupts. "If I didn't, this wouldn't be so hard.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“How am I suppose to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I’m wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone’s arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was me?”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper