“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.” — 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
“Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“He swaggered over to my mother, and kissed her so long and slow that my own cheeks started to burn, because I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. It's the child who's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A woman is at the funeral of her mother. There, she meets a man she doesn’t know and has never met, who… — 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
The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I wonder if there's a difference between being a dutiful mother and being a good mother.' There is,' I said, and Charlotte… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my… — 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
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
“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.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who… — 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
