1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.