We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. — 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
When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you. — 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
“Maybe this was the job of a mother: to buy time for her child, no matter what. Even if it meant doing… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you… — 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
I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is… — 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
“You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and… — 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
“You’d think that the hardest part of an experience like this is the moment the mother gives you her child, but it’s… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child?… — 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
“Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“My mother, who would always buy her books new, hated it the vintage hardcovers with their cracked spines and threadbare cloth covers.… — 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
“I wonder if there's a difference between being a dutiful mother and being a good mother.' There is,' I said, and Charlotte… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Corazon smiled at him. "You know how your mother keeps her Christmas card list? How she sends to people who send her… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer… — 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
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of… — 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
“My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When I was four years old, I kept telling my mother that the little boy in our house was stealing things.” — 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
“After all, the last thing Kenosi saw, before he closed his eyes forever, was his mother coming back to him.” — 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
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
“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
“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 Image
“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 Image
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
