Jodi Picoult Quotes

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

I was terrified of that ghost just like they were, but I never let anyone know it. That way, I knew they might call me a lot of awful names ... but one of them wasn't coward.

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.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

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.

Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they are always wrong.

I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

How could you change a boy’s bedding every week and feed him breakfast and drive him to the orthodontist and not know him at all?

All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

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

"I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do."

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.