If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it. — 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
“I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I used to have pink hair," I told Seven. "I used to have a real job," he answered. "What happened?" He shrugged.… — 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
“...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie. — 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
“Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room… — 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
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
“If you had the chance, would you change what you did?" We haven't rehearsed the answer, and maybe it's the only one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what… — 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
“Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I also mistakenly believed that the scariest stories came from imagination, not real life.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture… — 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
“The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with… — 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
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
“Just in case it... doesn't work. I want you to know, Delilah. You have been the biggest adventure of my life.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There… — 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
“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 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. Sharing DNA… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image