Jodi Picoult Quotes

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“Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees”

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

“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”

“The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.”

“something is always falling apart in me.”

“Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.”

“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”

“Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you”

“The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.”

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

“Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.”

“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”

“for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.”

“she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.”

“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”

“A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

“What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.”

“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”

“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”

“Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?”

“This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.”

“A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes… And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.”

“If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.”

“don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.”

“This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.”

“Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.”

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”

“Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.”

“You can run but you can't hide… but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.”

“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.”

“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.”

“I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.”

“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."
"But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.”

“I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.”

“They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.”

“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”

“How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else…”

“If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.”

“If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?”

“Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.”

“I think we deserve a happily-ever-after."
"If anyone ever did, it's us.”

“I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.”

“On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.”

“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”

“think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.”

“I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said.

My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?”