Jodi Picoult Quotes

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

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.

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

Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need?

A trial, it often came down to who had the best story.

Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus on it, it becomes less and less clear.

Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.

Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center.

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's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, " Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.

Jack could feel the fissures beginning even now, the hard shell he'd promised to keep in place so that no one, ever, would get close enough to hurt him again.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

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

At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after.""If anyone ever did, it's us.

So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

Is it really worth dying for the person you lo

Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No, " I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.

You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams.

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

Skin color doesn't make you different, ' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that, ' Raymon replied, 'are white.

Skin color doesn't make you different, " Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside."The only people who ever say that, " Raymond replied, "are white.

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming.

They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.

I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade.

When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

Can you fall for someone because you're lazy?

Better safe than sorry!

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my first name. I wanted three guys to fight for the honor of buying me a drink