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
“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
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
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
“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
Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after -… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In 1998, while serving two consecutive life sentences, Puente began corresponding with a writer named Shane Bugbee and sending him recipes which… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn… — 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
