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Jodi Lynn Picoult is an American writer. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Currently approximately 14 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. May 1966
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Jodi Picoult Quotes

“anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"

When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot.

They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that
doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Off the Page

“Love makes life a little brighter”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Leaving Time

“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy

“You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.”

Jodi Picoult

Variant: If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
Source: Vanishing Acts

“Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Between the Lines

“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

Jodi Picoult

Variant: That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
Source: Vanishing Acts

“You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'

How?'

Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

“I love you"…"But I made you cry.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

The Pact

“Just because you leave someone doesn’t mean you ever let them go.”

Jodi Picoult

Leaving Time

“I'd do it all over again.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

House Rules