Jodi Picoult Quotes

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

~ Jodi Picoult

She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

~ Jodi Picoult

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

~ Jodi Picoult

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

~ Jodi Picoult

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

~ Jodi Picoult

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

~ Jodi Picoult

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

~ Jodi Picoult

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights, you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

~ Jodi Picoult

But love wasn't about sacrifice, and it wasn't about falling short of someone's expectations. By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. 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.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

~ Jodi Picoult

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?

~ Jodi Picoult

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

~ Jodi Picoult

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

~ Jodi Picoult

When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

~ Jodi Picoult

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

~ Jodi Picoult

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

~ Jodi Picoult

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

~ Jodi Picoult

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

~ Jodi Picoult

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.

~ Jodi Picoult

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

~ Jodi Picoult

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

~ Jodi Picoult

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

~ Jodi Picoult

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

~ Jodi Picoult

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

~ Jodi Picoult

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

~ Jodi Picoult

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

~ Jodi Picoult

Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

~ Jodi Picoult