Jodi Picoult Quotes

You can miss a person you've never known.

~ Jodi Picoult

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?

~ Jodi Picoult

The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean something else, no innuendo. Wolves fight for two reasons: family and territory. Humans are driven by ego; wolves have no room for it and will literally nip it out of you. For a wolf, the world is about understanding, knowledge, respect – attributes that many humans have cast off, along with an appreciation of the natural world.

~ Jodi Picoult

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

~ Jodi Picoult

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

~ Jodi Picoult

It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

~ Jodi Picoult

You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

~ Jodi Picoult

...maybe you believe that we fall into our future blindly, drifting from adventure to adventure, our journey zigzagging not according to plan but according to pure chance. Or just maybe, as random and haphazard as our lives seems--maybe that's exactly what the author had in mind.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

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.

~ Jodi Picoult

Can you fall for someone because you're lazy?

~ Jodi Picoult

Better safe than sorry!

~ Jodi Picoult

The thing about a mom is that she's always there. She's the one who rubs your back when you have the flu, who manages to notice you have no clean underwear and does your wash for you, who stocks the refrigerator with all the foods you love without having to ask. The thing about a mom is that you never imagine taking care of her, instead of the other way around.

~ Jodi Picoult

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

~ Jodi Picoult

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

~ Jodi Picoult

DO you think it hurts to die? Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

~ Jodi Picoult

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

~ Jodi Picoult

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

~ Jodi Picoult

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

~ Jodi Picoult

I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my first name. I wanted three guys to fight for the honor of buying me a drink

~ Jodi Picoult

Raw love, like raw heart-ache, could blindside you.

~ Jodi Picoult

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

~ Jodi Picoult

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes.

~ Jodi Picoult

Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said.She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body.Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.

~ Jodi Picoult

But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?

~ Jodi Picoult

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

~ Jodi Picoult

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

~ Jodi Picoult

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

~ Jodi Picoult

There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared.

~ Jodi Picoult

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

~ Jodi Picoult

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

~ Jodi Picoult

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

~ Jodi Picoult

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

~ Jodi Picoult

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.

~ Jodi Picoult

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

~ Jodi Picoult

That's the crazy things about lies, you start to believe them yourself. (pg. 342)

~ Jodi Picoult

Do you ever go back?Ruthann nods, When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.

~ Jodi Picoult

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

~ Jodi Picoult