What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer. — 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
There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone… — 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
“The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone… — 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
We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our… — 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
If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you… — 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
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
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have… — 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
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
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
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
“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that’s because it’s all a chain, and a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She's not like anyone I've ever seen before. When I'm not with her, I want to be. And when she opens the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to… — 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
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 are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I 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
“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
