My Sister's Keeper Quotes:

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

topic: Alive, Organ Donor, My Sister's Keeper

something is always falling apart in me.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Falling Apart, My Sister's Keeper

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

topic: Night, Every Night, My Sister's Keeper

I am not my sister's keeper. I am my sister.

- Iyanla Vanzant

source: Iyanla Vanzant (2008). “Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

topic: My Sister, Keepers, My Sister's Keeper

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

topic: Broken Heart, Broken Love, Lines, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lying, Doe, Looks, My Sister's Keeper

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

topic: Moving, Opposites, My Sister, My Sister's Keeper

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

topic: Blood, Sick, Attention, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

topic: Real, Way, Used, My Sister's Keeper

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

topic: Strong, Enough, My Sisters Keeper, My Sister's Keeper, Sisters Keeper

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Sleep, Night, Love Is, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

topic: Giving, Sides, Loser, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

topic: My Family, My Sisters Keeper, Ought, My Sister's Keeper, Sisters Keeper

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fire, Forever, My Sisters Keeper, My Sister's Keeper, Sisters Keeper

Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Pain, Eye, Years, Arsenic, My Sister's Keeper

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.384, Simon and Schuster

topic: Blue, Years, Sky, Inspiring Love, Motivational Love

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

- Jodi Picoult

source: FaceBook post by Jodi Picoult from Jul 31, 2015

topic: My Sisters Keeper, Knows, Sisters Keeper, My Sister's Keeper

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

topic: Two, House, Bed, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.869, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tables, Realizing, My Sisters Keeper, My Sister's Keeper, Sisters Keeper

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Opposites, People, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: Cutting, Together, Pieces, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

topic: Memories, World, Want, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dark, Watches, Matter, Dark Matter, My Sister's Keeper

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Feel Better, Who I Am, Want, Make Me Feel Better, My Sister's Keeper

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Important, Watches, Wanted, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

topic: Memories, Years, Two, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Long, Long Life, Realizing, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Wall, Calendars, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

topic: Friendship, Sorry, Real, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Thinking, People, Looks, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

topic: I Love You, Falling In Love, People, I Fall In Love, My Sister's Keeper

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

- Barack Obama

topic: Brother, Hard Work, America, Look At Yourself, My Sister's Keeper

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

topic: Night, World, Want, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Book, Years, People, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mistake, Eye, Path, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Positive, Thinking, Fine, My Sister's Keeper

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

topic: Nice, Knowing, Fit, My Sister's Keeper

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Cancer, My Birthday, Kind, My Sister's Keeper

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

topic: Cat, Wind, Needs, My Sister's Keeper, I Need You

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.857, Simon and Schuster

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Fire, My Sister's Keeper, Bonfire

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1091, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dark, Light, I Can, My Sister's Keeper

But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mother, Thinking, Battle, My Sister's Keeper

think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Would Be, Looks, My Sister's Keeper, Lois Lane

Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work. That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper.

- Barack Obama

source: Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

topic: Hurt, Brother, Fall, My Sister's Keeper

I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

- Jodi Picoult

source: "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 24, 2009.

topic: Book, Thinking, Circles, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Would Be, Easier, Convince, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.437, Simon and Schuster

topic: Want, Sometimes, What You Want, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper

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?

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Sister, Sibling, Loss, Other Sister, My Sister's Keeper

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

topic: Parent, Gone, Reason, My Sister's Keeper, My Sisters Keeper