Jodi Picoult Quotes

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

I know you love me. The question is, how much?

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.