I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between… — 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
I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It… — 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
You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You don’t make peace only with God. You make it with people. Sin isn’t global. It’s personal. If you do wrong to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This… — 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
