“Look at that,” Michael said. “My daughter's an hour old and she's already sleeping with some guy.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“...he glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to remember when she used to be his daughter.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“However, no child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It was a hairline crack, one might never have noticed, except for the fact it grew wider and wider, until there was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to invade his privacy; I didn’t want to fight with him; I didn’t want anyone else to ever hurt… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“...there are just some people you cannot find the good in. But who am I to decide if someone should be killed… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Finally she found what she was looking for. “See, child?” she said, holding out a framed illustration that looked as if it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child ..it’s because you can… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Mothers are supposed to be their children's biggest cheerleaders. Mothers are supposed to believe in their children, no matter what. Mothers will… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“His biggest fear was that if and when he did find his missing daughter, she would no longer recognize who he had… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be-… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
“Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
