“I started to wonder what it might have felt like to live your life in a place someone else had carved.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Did you ever look down at yourself and realise that finally you had it all? Did you ever feel that everything was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“And if you don't find what you're looking for?" At Roy's question Addie looked up. "Then all I've lost is time.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles… — 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
“You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being… — 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
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be… — 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
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
You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as… — 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
Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right… — 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
“the image of those widmestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“...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
“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 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
“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
“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
I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd… — 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
