You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else… — 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
I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And… — 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
My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that’s because it’s all a chain, and a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image