Jodi Picoult Quotes

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.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

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

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

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

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?