“...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
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
“Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Look at that,” Michael said. “My daughter's an hour old and she's already sleeping with some guy.” — 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
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted… — 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 have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would… — 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
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
“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
“I have met convicted child molesters before. They don't waer badges or brands or tattoos announcing their vice. It's hidden under a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“So don't judge me, unless you've fallen asleep on a couch with your ill child, thinking this night might be her last.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I have met convicted child molesters before. They don’t wear badges or brands or tattoos announcing their vice. It’s hidden under a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you… — 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
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room… — 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
in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have… — 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
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because… — 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
Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he… — 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
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
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
“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
