Jodi Picoult Quotes

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

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

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.

No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

You can't pay a landlord in dogma.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

I found plain truth very interesting.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

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

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.

Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.

I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

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

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.