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The Storyteller QUOTES

The Storyteller QUOTES

1 " The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

2 " be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

3 " History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

4 " History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

5 " Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

6 " But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

7 " You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Not others. What Jesus challenges us to do is to let go of the wrong done to you personally, not the wrong done to someone else. But most Christians incorrectly assume that this means that being a good christian means forgiving all sins, and the sinners. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

8 " What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

9 " There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

10 " When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

11 " But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

12 " How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

13 " The only monsters I have ever known were men. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

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

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

15 " My grandmother lived a remarkable life. She watched her nation fall to pieces; and even when she became collateral damage, she believed in the power of the human spirit. She gave when she had nothing; she fought when she could barely stand; she clung to tomorrow when she couldn’t find footing on the rock ledge of yesterday. She was a chameleon, slipping into the personae of a privileged young girl, a frightened teen, a dreamy novelist, a proud prisoner, an army wife, a mother hen. She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.

By anyone’s account, her existence had been full, rich, important—even if she chose not to shout about her past, but rather to keep it hidden. It had been nobody’s business but her own; it was still nobody’s business. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

16 " If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The last photograph you had of your mother? A birthday gift from your best friend--a bookmark embroidered by her? A ticket stub from the traveling circus that had come through town two years ago, where you and your father held your breath as jeweled ladies flew through the air, and a brave man stuck his head in the mouth of a lion? Would you take them to make wherever you were going feel like home, or because you needed to remember where you had come from? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

17 " Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

18 " It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound and more like a poultice. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

19 " If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take? "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller

20 " [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.

I have to admit, I often feel that way myself. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Storyteller