Jodi Picoult Quotes

Does fate ever play by the rules?

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

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.

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

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

That,” she says, “was never here before.

I'm weird. Everyone says so.

He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

Who spit in your porridge?

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.

something is always falling apart in me.

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

There are certain things I do not talk about.

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

Life can change in an instant.