I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“what makes a family a family isn’t doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Family's not a thing, it's a place,' Shay said softly. 'It's where all the memories get kept.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“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… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours. That's because home… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In other words, what looks like cruel and heartless from one angle might, from another, actually be the only way to protect… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Have a conversation with your family about your end-of-life wishes while you are healthy. No one wants to have that discussion... but… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies,… — 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
There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a… — 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
