Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Have a conversation with your family about your end-of-life wishes while you are healthy. No one wants to have that discussion... but… — 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
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. — 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 didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember… — 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
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
There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read… — 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
