Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?"… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if… — 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