Jodi Picoult Quotes
I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.
Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?
Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.
This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.
This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.
Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore
I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me
I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life
How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?
Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.
I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.
A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.
That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person
Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.
She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.
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.
What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?
No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.
but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.
I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.