Jodi Picoult Quotes

Jodi Picoult Quote of the day

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

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.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Isn’t that what true romance is supposed 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.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Houses are cellular walls

I can give or take elephants

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

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.

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming

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

No child really chooses his religion

...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.

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

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

He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights