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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

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”

Jodi Picoult

“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Variant: A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Source: Salem Falls

“After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

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

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Mercy

“You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“You know someone's right for you when the things they don'tto say are even more important than the things they do.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant… it is always painful”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Variant: There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
Source: Nineteen Minutes

“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…”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

“There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Source: The Pact

“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home