Jodi Picoult Quotes

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

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

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

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.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

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.

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Only the liar knows he's lying

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

You get through it, you just never get over it

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?