Jodi Picoult Quotes

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

"Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't."

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

They sat me down and told me all the usual stuff, of course—but they also explained that they chose little embryonic me, specifically, because I could save my sister, Kate. ‘We loved you even more,’ my mother made sure to say, ‘because we knew what exactly we were getting.’

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

In the moments before, she laid a hand on his arm. 'No matter what,' she said, giving him a look, 'you cannot stop.

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am...

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed — sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

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.

"You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth."