Jodi Picoult Quotes

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans, " I say. "Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

Every life has a sound

To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.

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

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.

But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours.That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

You can believe something really hard, ' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

I sigh. “But if you’d talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . .” My voice trails off.“Then you wouldn’t feel quite so crazy?” Oliver asks gently. “Can’t you believe in me, if I believe in you?

Words, he knew, could scar.

You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

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

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom

What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found?

I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher.

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.

I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.

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

Isn’t that what true romance issupposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.

I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the other hand, is just a command to ‘go do’.

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin.

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.

You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.