“Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice-cream man; we… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could… — 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'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put… — 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 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
Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family,… — 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