“Is it really worth dying for the person you love?” [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. “That’s not the real question,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. Like: The fifth time's the charms. Like: Things between Zoe and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Maybe the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty-first century sin - but whether the people who define… — 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
The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Delia," he says. "I'm going to do the best I can today." "I know that." "But I also wanted to say I'm… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I prayed to saints. What I liked about them were their humble beginnings: they were human, once,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It's a good life lesson, whether or. it you ever work with wolves, Edward.No matter what you do for someone- no matter… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what… — 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
As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Best place to be?" Adrienne asks after a moment. On the other side of this wall. In my bed, at home. Anywhere… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There… — 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
“There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“May be the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty first century sin...but whether the people who define… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Kate is going to die. It took me a long time to be able to say that. We all are going to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If you knew what those [pork rinds] did to your body, you wouldn't eat them.' 'If you knew when the last time… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one." (from Vanishing Acts)” — 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