And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life I begin to understand how a parent might hit a child ..it’s because you can… — 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
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets… — 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
“I remember my mother telling me that, when she was a little girl in Catholic school, the nuns used to hit her… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up. — 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
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
“My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, like I was… — 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
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble… — 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
She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else. — 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
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? — 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
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
“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
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
“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
