Jodi Picoult Quotes

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Either Josie was someone she didn’t want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

The image of those midwestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.

I know you love me. The question is, how much?