Jodi Picoult Quotes

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

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.

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

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

Write a living will. And become an organ donor!

It takes two people to make a friendship work

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

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

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

Things don't always look as they seem.

Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

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.

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

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

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 first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?