“there is such a difference between living the life you are expected to live and living the life you want to live.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I went to law school for the same reason everyone else goes to law school: I had no idea what to do… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It's true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn't because God likes to see us… — 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
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his… — 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
if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“am looking for signs of life, although I know I won’t find them. I’m not sure how the poachers took this herd… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I pulled word after word from my core, like silk for a spider’s web, spinning a make-believe life. That’s why we read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like 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 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