1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

I'm fascinated by the idea of walking past a piece of art because you can't see it with the naked eye. Imagine all the times you've told yourself, Oh, it's nothing.Well, nothing can be pretty goddamned big.

if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead.

What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found?

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