Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Mothers are supposed to be their children's biggest cheerleaders. Mothers are supposed to believe in their children, no matter what. Mothers will… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It has taken me twenty-eight years to be able to admit that I'm glad I did not know my mother until now.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.” — 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
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow… — 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
