Jodi Picoult Quotes

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar...

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right....

It's raining.the kind of rain that comes down so heavy it sounds like the shower's running, even whe...

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up cr...

As she turns her head and focuses on me, I lift her palm to my mouth, press a kiss in its center. "Y...

You?" I start to laugh. "Look at you. You're a knock-out. You're smarter than I am. You're on a care...

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me""Do what?""Push me off the same cliff twice

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them throu...

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

But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but h...

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on...

Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to...

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people ...

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even...

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you ca...

Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. ...

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has pu...

I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I...

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I...

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking t...

Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are ...

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their...

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to ...

The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. "Congratulations," I say,...

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a singl...

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep d...

Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole gramm...

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...

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

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact wit...

Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. ...

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover...

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the...

That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be ...

The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a s...

I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up—as if ...

To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory thatsomeone has left this world, you a...

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Chan...

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables wh...

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have...

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking th...

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregna...

You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my sh...

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

I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same plac...

I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth...

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that y...

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewi...

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like ...

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and E...

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. ...

I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up- as if...

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a ...

I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious."Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shut...

I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my ...

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to ...

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can n...

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

You," Seven pronounced, "are a train wreck of sexual history."But this is inaccurate. A runaway trai...

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy...

Do you have kids?" Anna asks.I laugh. "What do you think?""It's probably a good thing," she admits. ...

I suddenly remember being about seven, riding beside him in the car, and asking him how grown-ups fo...

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone f...

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let...

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange...

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was ...

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does ...

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, w...

When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother ...

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had be...

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It mea...

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a...

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. On...

Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when y...

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight year...

The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths an...

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew mo...

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just detail...

You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have wit...

When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusi...

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until...