Jodi Picoult Quotes

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

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Sometimes, all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

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.

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

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

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

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

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

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

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

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

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

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.

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

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.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

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

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

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

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?