Jodi Picoult Quotes

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

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

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

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

Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

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

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

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

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

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

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

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

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

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

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

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

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

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

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

People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

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

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.