Jodi Picoult Quotes

Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

Love makes life a little brighter

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

It takes two people to make a friendship work

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Leave it to a man to mess things up

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Things don't always look as they seem.

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.

I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

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

Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.