Jodi Picoult Quotes

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“I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

“If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.”

“And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.”

“love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”

“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”

“What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.”

“That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?”

“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”

“I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.”

“I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.”

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

“I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.”

“Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.”

“If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.”

“I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in… It broke.”

“Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.”

“Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.”

“It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.”

“do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?”

“I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.”

“Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.”

“A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.”

“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”

“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”

“Everyone deserves a happy ending.”

“All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.”

“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”

“My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?”

“I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.”

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

“If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.”

“You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.”

“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”

“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.”

“That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”

“You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.”

“You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?”

“Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.”

“It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.”

“To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.”

“There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.”

“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”

“I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.”

“What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”

“Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.”

“There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.”

“You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”