Jodi Picoult Quotes

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

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

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

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

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

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.

We Pisces, we're a special breed.

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

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

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

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.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

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

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

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

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

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

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.