Jodi Picoult Quotes

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

~ Jodi Picoult

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

~ Jodi Picoult

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

~ Jodi Picoult

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

~ Jodi Picoult

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven.But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehowI put it all together and figured that the food God served causedmultiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

Go fuck yourself Judge.Motion denied. answers the judge dryly.

~ Jodi Picoult

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

~ Jodi Picoult

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

~ Jodi Picoult

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?

~ Jodi Picoult

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

~ Jodi Picoult

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

~ Jodi Picoult

And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

~ Jodi Picoult

Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

~ Jodi Picoult

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

~ Jodi Picoult

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

~ Jodi Picoult

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

~ Jodi Picoult

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

~ Jodi Picoult

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

~ Jodi Picoult

There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

~ Jodi Picoult

Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting.

~ Jodi Picoult

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

~ Jodi Picoult

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

~ Jodi Picoult

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

~ Jodi Picoult

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help?I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?

~ Jodi Picoult

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

~ Jodi Picoult

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

~ Jodi Picoult

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

~ Jodi Picoult

Every life has a sound

~ Jodi Picoult

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

~ Jodi Picoult

To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

~ Jodi Picoult

What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.

~ Jodi Picoult

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

~ Jodi Picoult

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

~ Jodi Picoult

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

~ Jodi Picoult

Then Henry speaks again. Did he do it?I turn to him slowly. Does it matter?

~ Jodi Picoult

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.

~ Jodi Picoult

Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dying by degrees. This is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes: we all want to be able to find the place where we started.

~ Jodi Picoult