1,824 Quotes by Jodi Picoult

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.

Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.