You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would… — 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
There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as… — 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
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
You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way… — 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
