These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What would you grab, if you had to pack up your life in only minutes?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. — 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
People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But thats not true, is it? You know, and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I have carved a life out of doing what needs to be done, because you can vail to the heavens, but in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Would you rather spend the rest of your life thinking about us, and remembering it as something totally perfect, or would it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing… — 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
“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
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize… — 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
“You can invent any fiction and call it a life." "Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“but when you held one of those volumes in your hands, you were leafing through another person’s life. Someone else had once… — 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
I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall… — 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
I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy… — 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 wonder if it's putting on someone else's skin for a while that she likes so much, or if it's the option… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if… — 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
“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“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
I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves… — 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