If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this… — 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
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling?… — 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
“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 think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. It's the child who's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You’d be surprised how hard it is to get people to believe the truth. I guess that’s because most of the time… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I do not have the money anymore. It was all yours, after all. I slipped the check into the silk lining of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"…they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If you knew you were going to die, wasn’t it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you… — 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
“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
“Over her shoulder was Josie-and for the first time, Alex could really see a piece of herself in her daughter. It wasn’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 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