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
You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. — 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
People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing… — 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
My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“People move too fast and talk too much, and before you know it, they come back to a place they don't want… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even… — 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
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't… — 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
