1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.