“emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Is it really worth dying for the person you love?” [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. “That’s not the real question,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You can keep dividing and dividing and you’ll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“She falls asleep this time holding my hand, Eric's diamond ring cutting into my palm like the wounds of Passion from the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen. My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Over her shoulder was Josie-and for the first time, Alex could really see a piece of herself in her daughter. It wasn’t… — 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’d think that the hardest part of an experience like this is the moment the mother gives you her child, but it’s… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a… — 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
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just… — 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
“Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likely to have disappeared by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You’d be surprised how hard it is to get people to believe the truth. I guess that’s because most of the time… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If you knew you were going to die, wasn’t it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I do not have the money anymore. It was all yours, after all. I slipped the check into the silk lining of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one." (from Vanishing Acts)” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly. — 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
“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